HERVEY WILLETTS HIS ADVENTURES [Illustration: HERVEY, TREMBLING IN EVERY NERVE, FACED THE APPROACHING TRAIN.] HERVEY WILLETTS BY PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of THE TOM SLADE BOOKS THE ROY BLAKELEY BOOKS THE PEE-WEE HARRIS BOOKS THE WESTY MARTIN BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD L. HASTINGS Published with the approval of THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Made in the United States of America COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP Here he is with his hat and his ruffled up hair. Reckless, happy-go-lucky and new; And because he is crazy and won’t take a dare. They liked him—and I like him too. He’s wild and all that and as blind as a bat, And he drives them distracted it’s true; But one look at that hat and I say for all that, I like him, that’s all, I just do. He’s never at rest and he may be a pest, And the gods cannot say what he’ll do; He can’t take a test, yet above all the rest, I like him—and you’ll like him too. CONTENTS