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Roy Blakeley, Lost, Strayed or Stolen by Percy Keese FitzhughOne thing, anyway, I wouldn’t say anything against the scout laws because they are good laws, that’s one sure thing. Even fellows that disobey them have to admit that they are good. If there weren’t any we couldn’t even disobey them, so gee whiz, I’m glad they are in the Handbook. That’s what they are for.I don’t mean we want to disobey them. But anyway, this is what I mean, that even fellows that disobey them ought to be glad they are there, because if they weren’t there they couldn’t disobey them. That’s what Pee-wee Harris calls logic. He says he knows a lot about logic, because his uncle has a friend whose brother is a lawyer.There are twelve of those laws, and the one I like best is law number eight, because it says a scout has to be cheerful and smile a lot. I always smile except when I’m asleep, and I’m not asleep much, because a scout is supposed to be wide awake. When I’m asleep I never disobey any of those laws.I’ll tell you some more about the scout laws, too, only this isn’t going to be a law book, you can bet. A scout is always supposed to do a given task. His dinner is a given task. He’s supposed to do a good turn every day. Maybe you think those are hard, but they are easy. If a scout in my patrol had some gumdrops and I ate half of them so he wouldn’t get sick, that would be a good turn. See?A scout is supposed to save life, too. Once I saved Wig Weigand’s life. He nearly died laughing at Pee-wee Harris, and I got there just in time to push the kid off the springboard into the water so he had to stop talking. That’s one thing I’m crazy about. I don’t mean talking, I mean swimming.Especially a scout is supposed to be observant. That’s one thing about the scouts my sister doesn’t like. She’s crazy about tennis, my sister is; tennis and strawberries. She’s crazy about Harry Donnelle, too; he’s a big fellow. That’s why she doesn’t like it about scouts being observant—I should worry.But anyway, you needn’t think that scouts are always smiling. Lots of times I laugh, he he, but I’m not happy. That’s because we have a lot of trouble on account of not being able to keep our meeting place in one spot very long. Gee williger, Washington had a lot of headquarters and we only have one headquarters, but we have our headquarters in as many places as he did. Gee, there are a lot of people that have to move these days, but they don’t have to move the houses they live in, that’s one good thing. When you have to take your house with you, that’s no fun. Housing problems are bad enough, and transportation problems are bad enough. And besides, I hate problems anyway, especially in arithmetic. But, gee whiz, when you get a housing problem and a transportation problem all rolled into one-good night!

Percy Keese Fitzhugh (September 7, 1876 – July 5, 1950) is an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults.Percy Keese Fitzhugh was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Records do not indicate that he graduated. He married Harriet (Hatti) Lloyd LePorte on July 13, 1900 in Kingston, Massachusetts. Fitzhugh's first known work, The Goldenrod Story Book was published in 1906.This ebook edition is collection of works of Percy K. Fitzhugh (Part 2.). The edition comes with nine books, illustrations, active table of contents and active navigation.Included Works:Tom Slade Boy Scout Of The Moving PicturesTom Slade At Black LakeTom Slade At Temple CampTom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch BearerTom Slade On A TransportTom Slade On Mystery TrailTom Slade With The Boys Over ThereTom Slade With The ColorsTom Slade's Double Dare

Percy Keese Fitzhugh (September 7, 1876 – July 5, 1950) is an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults.Percy Keese Fitzhugh was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Records do not indicate that he graduated. He married Harriet (Hatti) Lloyd LePorte on July 13, 1900 in Kingston, Massachusetts. Fitzhugh's first known work, The Goldenrod Story Book was published in 1906.This ebook edition is collection of works of Percy K. Fitzhugh (Part 1.). The edition comes with nine books, illustrations, active table of contents and active navigation.Included Works:Pee-Wee HarrisPee-Wee Harris AdriftPee-Wee Harris On The TrailRoy Blakeley: His StoryRoy Blakeley In The Haunted CampRoy Blakeley's Adventures In CampRoy Blakeley's Bee-Line HikeRoy Blakeley's Camp On WheelsRoy Blakeley, Pathfinder

This historic book was published in 1917. Contents: George Rogers Clark -- David Crockett -- Samuel Houston -- Christopher (Kit) Carson -- Richard Wooton -- William Frederick Cody -- Belzy Dodd -- George Croghan -- Daniel Boone -- Francis Marion -- Samuel Brady -- Lewis and Clark -- Zebulon Montgomery Pike -- Andrew Lewis -- General Henry W. Lawton -- Joseph, the Nez Percé -- Old John Smith -- Rube Stevens -- General George A. Custer -- James Bridger Summary from the book's Preface: As every boy knows, this great country of ours was in the begin- ning a very little country, occupying a narrow strip of land along the Atlantic Coast. The vast ocean washed against it, and across this ocean brave men, heroic, intrepid, and adventurous, had come, braving its perils, and had founded their little colonies along its wild, rugged shore. These men were explorers - water scouts, they might be called - and their lives and deeds were marvels of prowess and adven- ture. But beyond this narrow strip of land lay another wilderness, mysterious and unexplored, and as dark and perilous and track- less as the wild ocean to the eastward. The thirteen colonies, and later the little republic; lay between these two vast silent wastes; and men soon found that of the two the watery one was the easier to explore. At least, it was not so difficult to estimate its perils. There were storms and there were pirates; but at least there were no un- known savages, no wild beasts, no frowning mountains, or barren, wind-swept plains - no scorching sands. This land ocean was as wide as the watery one and a great deal more mysterious. The venturesome explorers and settlers had solved one mystery only to find another. Miles and miles of frowning wilderness stretched to the westward showing no more sign of path or trail than the broad Atlantic had shown. Ships were of no use here, and there were no other vehicles which could be made use of. Under the general heading of "Scout:, which means one who goes ahead of an army to obtain information, we include here men who did much more than that, who were scouts in a broader sense, and whose adventurous deeds were not limited to their military activities. Some of them went ahead not of an army, but of civilization, felling forests and lighting, because they had to fight the savages who challenged their advance. They are associated in our minds quite as much with the axe as with the gun, and the log cabin should be their emblem, for they were, most of them, religious men and apostles of the home. They began very early in our history pushing westward, and continued pushing westward as civilization tagged on behind them. These men, products of our own land and breathing its bold spirit, are undoubtedly the most picturesque characters in history. They were as much a wonder to Europeans as the red Indians himself was. They were as resolute and as lofty of aim as the old Crusaders. The Boys' Book of Scouts is intended to tell of the remarkable careers of some of the most conspicuous of these picturesque characters, We are not to think of them as fighters or as "going west to fight the Indians", for they went with no such purpose; but they knew no fear, they shunned no peril, and they carried their guns as well as their axes because they knew there was no use going out to a lonely frontier with pinks in their buttonholes and shaking tin rattles.

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