E-text prepared by Roger Frank and Sue Clark Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 59405-h.htm or 59405-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59405/59405-h/59405-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59405/59405-h.zip) PEE-WEE HARRIS F. O. B. BRIDGEBORO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Pee-wee reached out a leg to get a foot hold.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PEE-WEE HARRIS F. O. B. BRIDGEBORO by PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of The Tom Slade Books The Roy Blakeley Books The Pee-Wee Harris Books Illustrated by H. S. Barbour Published with the approval of The Boy Scouts Of America Grosset & Dunlap Publishers—New York Made in the United States of America Copyright, 1923, by Grosset & Dunlap ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS I THE ONLY ORIGINAL II THE FATEFUL GUM-DROP III ANOTHER INSPIRATION IV THE CARLSON-BATES MEMORIAL V CHAOS AND CONFUSION VI NORTHWARD BOUND VII SAID PEE-WEE— VIII ENTER LIZZIE IX ADVENTURES WITH A FLIVVER X ADVENTURES WITH A FLIVVER—CONTINUED XI THE ENDLESS CHAIN XII IN CAMP XIII A SCOUT IS POLITE XIV UP IN THE AIR XV DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION—AND WAR XVI FIRST AID XVII GONE XVIII PEE-WEE DOESN’T WATCH HIS STEP XIX THE PANIC XX THE SCOUT XXI SUSPENSE XXII PEE-WEE LAYS DOWN THE LAW TO THE JUDGE XXIII WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS XXIV PEE-WEE FIXES IT XXV HE GOES TO CONQUER XXVI BUSINESS IS PLEASURE XXVII TOWNSEND AND HIS FLIVVER XXVIII ADVENTURES WITH A FLIVVER—CONTINUED XXIX “RESOURCES” XXX A SURPRISE XXXI TOWNSEND’S MIDDLE NAME XXXII THREE’S A COMPANY XXXIII THE SOLEMN VOW XXXIV END OF THE RELAY RACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PEE-WEE HARRIS F. O. B. BRIDGEBORO CHAPTER I THE ONLY ORIGINAL It was often observed by Roy Blakeley that whenever Pee-wee opened his mouth he put his foot in it. Unquestionably he put _something_ in it on a very large percentage of the occasions when it was open, and there is no denying that it was open a great deal of the time; probably a hundred and twenty per cent of the time. There was probably nothing about Pee-wee which he opened as often as his mouth, unless it was his scout handbook. And on one occasion when he opened his scout handbook, he put his foot in it with a vengeance. And thereby hangs a tale. There can be no doubt that Pee-wee knew all about scouting—oh _everything_. But the trouble was that he did not know all about scouts. And this was his undoing.