Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 10552-h.htm or 10552-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10552/10552-h/10552-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10552/10552-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/royblakeleyhiss00fitz ROY BLAKELEY [Illustration: I BEGAN SINKING AS LOW AS MY WAIST.] ROY BLAKELEY His Story Being the true narrative of his adventures and those of his troop on land and sea and in the mud—particularly in the mud. Taken from the Troop Book of the 1st Bridgeboro Troop B. S. A. and arranged by himself with the assistance of Pee-wee Harris and PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of Tom Slade, Boy Scout, Tom Slade at Temple Camp, etc. Illustrated by Howard L. Hastings Published with the approval of THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Grosset & Dunlap Publishers : : New York Copyright, 1920, by Grosset & Dunlap TABLE OF CONTENTS I. TROUBLES OF MY OWN—THE BIG CONCLAVE II. SWATTING THE SPY III. SWATTING THE SPY—CONTINUED IV. THE PLOT GROWS THINNER—OR ELSE THICKER V. LOST VI. THE TIGHT PLACE VII. WEETONKA, THE TERRIBLE CHIEF VIII. RESOPEKITWAFTENLY IX. THE LOST LETTER X. THE RAVENS XI. LOST XII. ARTIE’S ADVENTURE XIII. TRACKING XIV. THE SLACKER XV. DURING NOON HOUR XVI. NOBLE RAGS XVII. THE TWO CROSSES XVIII. SCOUT LAW NUMBER THREE XIX. THE END OF THE MEETING XX. MOSTLY ABOUT SKINNY XXI. SOMETHING MISSING XXII. SHOWS YOU WHERE I DO THE TALKING XXIII. IN THE WOODS XXIV. TREASURE ISLAND XXV. THE SHORT CUT XXVI. IN MY OWN CAMP XXVII. THE GENTLE BREEZE XXVIII. JOLLYING PEE-WEE XXIX. JIMMY, THE BRIDGE-TENDER XXX. GONE XXXI. THE CAPTAIN’S ORDERS XXXII. I MAKE A DANDY FRIEND XXXIII. SO LONG—SEE YOU LATER ROY BLAKELEY CHAPTER I TROUBLES OF MY OWN—THE BIG CONCLAVE Well, here I am at last, ready to tell you the adventures of our young lives. Right away I have trouble with Pee-wee Harris. He’s about as easy to keep down as a balloon full of gas. We call him the young dirigible because he’s always going up in the air. Even at the start he must stick in his chapter heading about a conclave.