But during the fine September weather he and the boys made two short trips up the Bay, where there was ailing in some of the families.
In the course of these excursions they took occasion to visit Let-in-Cove, which lay just outside Grampus River, where the new lumber camps were situated, and also Snug Cove and Tuggle Bight, a little farther on.

At Let-in-Cove Peter and Lige Sparks, at Snug Cove Obadiah Button and Micah Dunk, and at Tuggle Bight Seth Muggs were enlisted in the scout troop, and a handbook left at each place.

These, indeed, with the three Anguses, were the only boys of scout age within a radius of fifty miles of The Jug.
There was great excitement among the lads, and Doctor Joe proudly declared that there would be no finer or more efficient troop of scouts in all the world than his little troop of eight when they had become familiar with their duties.
A new field and a broader vision of life was to open to these Labrador lads, whose life was of necessity circumscribed.

They had never been given the opportunity to play as boys play in more favoured lands.
They had never known the joys of football or cricket or the hundred other fine, health-giving games that are a part of the life of every English or Canadian boy.

They had never seen a circus or a moving picture and they had never been in a schoolroom in their lives.
This opportunity to play and study as other boys play and study in other lands was the thing, perhaps, they longed for above all else.
Doctor Joe had inspired them with ambition.