Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

ant to know why we stayed behind when the Ravens and the Elks went, you'd better read the story that comes before

o or three of us were sitting in the swinging seat on my porch

th killing Pee-wee?"

'll hear the flutter of their wi

ting?" Dorry

peanuts," Hunt

crossed the road and cut up across the lawn.

I said; "he's a walking junk shop

t and his big nickel-plated compass hanging by a cord around his neck. He had all his badges on, and besides he had his aluminum cooking set hanging by a strap from his shoulder. He had his brown scarf on too, he didn't

s this? A travelin

, Kid? Where's your steel armor? What's the la

kid looked like that picture in the handbook th

st be going to join the Cook's Tours with all your cooking t

gation," Pe

?" I as

t a missionary is?"

what you've got the compass for! You're going to China? B

rol. I was trying to get you a new member. When you go after new members you've got to look like a scout, haven't you? You've got

ll that junk hanging on you," I to

lister," h

we all beg

the wild and woolly front porch too much. You stand a tall chance of getting Warde

ing better to do with

e join the Silver Foxes when he can shoot buffaloes and Indians an

o that?" Pee-we

at's a dangerous place, that is; I've known fellows to get killed in there. There use

Pee-wee screamed. He always

ied in a book; it was absorbing just like quicksand, and he got absorbed in it. What were you going to do, Kid? Throw the coffee-pot at

" Pee-wee shouted. "Do you want

old him. "Begin at the end and go

cond turn to your

good turn," the kid shouted. "No wonder

hat?" Westy w

ple have said so, to

. "Go ahead with your story. What do you want us to

rcumnavigated yet," Pee-wee s

d you mean,"

t I mean," th

ld him; "the plo

ple of peanuts

pot upside down and, good morning,

t's in the sau

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