Roy Blakeley's roundabout hikeFitzhugh, Percy Keese
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Roy Blakeley's roundabout hike
Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Adventure stories; Boy Scouts of America -- Juvenile fiction; Hiking -- Juvenile fiction
I said, “To tell you the honest truth the only thing that makes me think
we won’t find anything is because Pee-wee is mixed up in it. You fellows
don’t know because you’ve never been up to camp before, but Pee-wee is
the big hero of about three million things that never happened. I’m
sorry it wasn’t him that tried to start the world war because then it
never would have happened. You see how the wind died down when we
started out on a windmeter hike. But if it wasn’t for Pee-wee I’d think
we might find that oil-can or oil container or whatever you call it. It
looks good to me. Only there’s no use hunting around. We ought to come
and camp here a couple of days or so and work spasmodically----”
“You mean systematically!” Pee-wee yelled.
“What difference does it make what I mean?” I shot back at him. “It’s
actions that count, not meanings--I’ll leave it to Dub. We’ve got to go
to work under deficient leadership--or sufficient or inefficient, I
don’t care.”
All of a sudden Pee-wee went up in the air. “Are you going to have some
sense or not?” he shouted. “Now we’ve got a chance to find a paper that
will fix it so Mr. Bagley can sell all that woods to Temple Camp and
every newspaper in the United States will have pictures of us how we
found a lost will and maybe I bet even that woods will be named after us
even! And all you can do is to keep on fooling about it, you think it’s
a joke to not get some property that you ought to get, you’re such a big
fool always laughing and talking a lot of nonsensical nonsense! Do you
think that’s the way to discover something serious?”
“I don’t want to discover anything serious,” I said.
“That’s because you’re a Silver Fox,” the kid yelled, “and they’re all
the same only you’re worse than any of them and they ought to be named
the Laughing Hyenas!”
By that time Dub and Sandy were laughing so hard they couldn’t speak.
Dub was lying on his back kicking his legs.
I said, “This has gone far enough. We shall find that will, say no
more.”
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