The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge or Marooned Among the Moonshiners (1913)

Popular children's book, first published in 1913, part of the Boy Scouts series. The story begins: "DID anybody happen to see my knapsack around?" "Why, you had it just a few minutes ago, Step Hen!" "I know that, Bumpus; and I'd take my affidavy I laid it down on this rock." "Well, don't whine so about a little thing like that, Step Hen; it ain't there now, and that's a fact."