From that moment, had the stranger known it, he was as good as dead.

For a boy scout with badges on his sleeve for "stalking" and "path-finding," not to boast of others for "gardening" and "cooking," can outwit any spy.

Even had, General Baden-Powell remained in Mafeking and not invented the boy scout, Jimmie Sniffen would have been one.

Because, by birth he was a boy, and by inheritance, a scout.

In Westchester County the Sniffens are one of the county families.