Roy Blakeley's Funny-bone HikeFitzhugh, Percy Keese
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Roy Blakeley's Funny-bone Hike
Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Boy Scouts of America -- Juvenile fiction; Camping -- Juvenile fiction
“Yes, let’s go over there,” said the Maniac. “I want to see Broadway.
You’re all right, Pee-wee, your eyes should be called an academy,
because there are pupils there.”
“Say you’re pretty good for a new one, when you get back to Maine,
you’ll go back as bad almost as Roy Blakeley,” said Pee-wee.
“Ah, you have given me hope, that I may be so clever!” said the Maniac.
“Clever?” said Pee-wee scornfully.
“Hey, you fellows, come on over and see what I have found.”
“What is it?” someone asked.
“That’s the joke, _what_ is it?” I answered.
“It’s an old use to be buggy,” said Hervey.
“I should think it is buggy,” said I.
“Gee, we ought to have some fun with it,” said Westy.
“Let’s take it up to the hill, in back of the barn and ride down in it,”
suggested Hervey.
“No sooner said than stung,” said I.
“Just make believe we didn’t have fun rolling up the hill with a use to
be buggy, that was very buggy!”
“Roy, grab hold of this end,” said Hervey. “We’ll soon have her in
high!”
I said, “Say, Hervey, would you like to steer this buggy buggy?”
“We didn’t have quite enough thrills on our hike,” said Warde, “so
please take the wheel and let’s have it over with.”
“Wheel? Just try and find a wheel,” said Hervey. “You’d stand a better
chance of taking the reins.”
“Taking the reins? I should worry as long as the rains don’t take us!”
said I.
“Will you stop your fooling, Roy,” asked Warde, “and get started?”
It’s really a shame how they pick on poor little me.
Well, we finally got the thing all set ready to go.
“Say, Roy, we ought to have a speech in honor of the first ride with the
Boy Scouts!” said the Maniac.
“Speech, speech,” cried several boys.
“Let’s sere—I mean christen it,” said Pee-wee.
“Yes,” said Hervey, “we must do this thing right and spare no expenses.”
“K. O.,” said I. “Here, cutie, run to the pump and fill up this bottle
with the best sparkling water there is; spare no expenses, as Hervey
said.”
The poor bottle did the best it could, with a certain amount of pensive
resignation, for it had undoubtedly seen better days.
“Let’s do it in a different way. Let’s all get in and just as soon as
Roy is finished with the toast, (at which Pee-wee started) we’ll start
off,” said Hervey.
We always did anything Hervey suggested because we knew that it would be
crazy, so we didn’t hesitate this time.
“Hey, wait a minute,” yelled Pee-wee, “think I’m going to stand here and
watch you go down?” Oh that kid, just as he said that, he gave a jump
and hopped on the buggy. The jar was so great that the buggy buggy went
buggy, and started off without even waiting for my speech.
Honestly, it seemed as though everyone was falling over each other, as
the buggy went down and down. Upside down and inside out. Oh you should
of seen it.
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