Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 61089-h.htm or 61089-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61089/61089-h/61089-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61089/61089-h.zip) ROY BLAKELEY’S TANGLED TRAIL [Illustration: PEE-WEE WENT DANCING AROUND WAVING THE BURNING PAPER.] ROY BLAKELEY’S TANGLED TRAIL by PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of the Tom Slade Books, the Roy Blakeley Books, the Pee-Wee Harris Books, Westy Martin, etc. 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, 1924, by Grosset & Dunlap CONTENTS I Greetings II On the Shelf III Hervey and the Camp IV Tracks V Plans VI We Start VII The Fall of Scout Harris VIII Foiled Again IX The Sound of Merry Laughter X The Plot Grows Thicker—the Mud Too XI An Intermission XII Girls and Wasps XIII “The Shiveller” XIV Hands Off XV Stung XVI Jelly Cones XVII Ancient History XVIII A Story of the Past XIX We Meet a Stranger XX A Rare Species XXI Thirty-four Cents XXII Our Favorite Outdoor Sport XXIII Hunting for Trouble XXIV The Flapper and the Flopper XXV Resources and Things XXVI Flop Number Two XXVII The Black Sheep XXVIII Through the Mist XXIX Eyes to See and Ears to Hear XXX The Three of Us XXXI The Voice in the Night XXXII Hervey All Over XXXIII Hervey’s Serenade XXXIV Tom Fixes It XXXV To the Point ROY BLAKELEY’S TANGLED TRAIL CHAPTER I GREETINGS Hello, everybody, this is the first story I wrote in a long time, only I haven’t written it yet. I mean when it’s all written it will be the first one I wrote in a long time. That’s because my fountain pen got broken on account of stirring coffee with it in camp. Pee-wee Harris said that needn’t make any difference because a scout is supposed to be able to write with a charred stick whittled to a point.