Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

other you with geography because, gee whiz, I have no use for that. Believe me, when you see my picture on the cover of a book you'll know there is no hist

erty up there and so everybody calls it Blakeley's hill. It's in Br

vers run through valleys-that shows how smart I am. There is always high land

s. The state road runs along that ridge and our house is on the state road only it's way back from the road. We've got a dandy grape

e river. That's where the town ends-at the river. There are a lot of turtles in that river. Across the river the land is l

onnelle lives. He's got a Cadillac, that fellow has. Lots of times he treats us to soda, but he won't be a sc

e between my house and that other ridge you can see that tree. Down in Bridgeboro maybe there are places where you can't see it on account of buildings, but most always you can see it. If you could have a string from my porch to that tree, the string w

follow us, all right, it's up to you. I

hool. Our young hero, P. Harris, was all decorated up like a band wagon, belt-axe, badges, compass, cooking set, a big coil of rope and the horn p

ograph horn for?"

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long," I said. "We'll have enough s

d sweethearts and things to weep

sweethearts around the house just at p

ng some handkerch

ckets of tears," Hu

ould come out on the porch and weep. My mother said she was very busy but she'd come

ep on weeping and wringing your hands while I make a farewell speech. Don't you k

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turn back like somebody or other who started for some place once upon a time in the third grade history-an explorer. The battle cry is 'ONWARD.' If we do any good turns they'll have to be up and down, not to right or left. Anybody that wants to stay home can do it. At five o'clock this afternoon w

"You'd better we

it says in the handbook a scout lives straight-but we can beat that, we can go straight. We are going to go in a bee-line for that tree and take possession of it in the name of the

was a big piece of cardboard fixed onto a scout

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