- A troop of Boy Scouts meet a gang of young boys who start a fist fight. The Boy Scouts win and the gang decides they are not so bad after all and join up.
- Pug Haddon, son of a thief, holds as his dearest possession "The High History of King Arthur and His Knights," a book left him by his mother when she died. Inspired by the great deeds of the fearless warriors in the story, Pug organizes a gang. They include the following in their by-laws: "Every guy that belongs to the W.M.K.E.S.T. (Wharf-rats, Motherless Knights Erring of the Square Table), must be brave, an' he's gotter do bloody and desprit deeds, an' he gotter stick to the rest of the gang 'till death." Pug's mother's last admonition was that he be honest, and Pug incorporated his mother's wish into the by-laws. Not far away, the Pinetree patrol of the Boy Scouts went into camp under the direction of its Scoutmaster, and David Scudder, the senior scout leader, known as "Scud," who was allotted the task of supervision of the junior scouts in conjunction with the Scoutmaster. Headed by Pug, the W.M.K.E.S.T. set out in quest of adventure. The Knights meet the Scouts and hurl belittling remarks at them. "Scud" orders the Scouts to keep on and ignore the Knights, but the Knights are in quest of trouble and continue to harass the Scouts until it is necessary for "Scud" to order his army to "scrum". A struggle ensues and Pug is slightly injured. The Scouts make use of their "first aid" knowledge and aid him. The Knights then flee to their quarters in fear of the police. In the evening as Pug is returning home from a meeting of the W.M.K.E.S.T. he sees Billy (a young chap denied membership in the Knights' organization because he had a mother) at the point of a gun about to be forced through an opening in a window made by burglars. Pug sees a vision of Billy's mother waiting for him and offers to take Billy's place if they let his pal go, but the thieves are suspicious of Pug and hold the two until they get their loot. While in the jewelry store Pug touch silver cup which he imagined to be the Holy Grail, The detective assigned to investigate the case goes in search of the person whose fingerprints he found on the silver cup. While hiding in the barn where the W.M.K.E.S.T. meet, the detective overhears a conversation which reveals the identity of the real burglars and the innocence of Pug. Meanwhile one of the Knights had been dispatched to seek "Scud," the boy scout, to lend assistance to Pug, who was suffering from a wound as a result of the jewelry store raid. The captain of the Boy scouts and "Scud" arrive, and succeed in making Pug realize the contrasting qualities of his organization and that of the Scouts. Pug's better self asserts itself and he, together with the organization he formed, join a Division of the Boy scouts, h by Boyle, the detective, whom they select as their captain.
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