Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

ight or left to get into the road. We just kind of bunked into fame. That hike was only seven miles long b

nto Bridgeboro, Pee-wee said, "We ought to

e the official junk wagon you m

" he wante

atin for banner. Didn't you ever

as if he thought he could frighten buildings out of the way. The stuff he had inside of his pate

gular formation so as to look more invincible

terror, hey?

a restaurant," Hun

"Suppose three fellows walk together, and three others behind them, and Pee-wee a

the kid wan

o be courier and envoy and a lot of things. You're my official body-guard. You're

oo, on account of his aluminum cooking set rattling and jingling in the phonograph horn. He looked very severe. I guess the women

laugh is caused by Pee-wee. You can only see it, but oh, boy, you ought to hear it. Behind us came Westy and Dorry and Hunt

had a crowd of about a couple of dozen all around us, yelling and hooting. And all the grown up people stoppe

d Pee-wee's compass. I carried that compass to help us in places whe

t across the east and west points. It's best to lay the compass down on something when you do that. Then you get a bead on the direction of the stick and pick out something that it points at. Then you hike straight for that thing. But there's no

for a little distance on account of Central Avenue running east and west. We had good l

fool yourself and say it goes straight west when it doesn't, quite. But Central Avenue did, because away down beyond the other end of it, and away across the river we could see that big tree up on the r

g right in the thick part of town. But we checked our course up with the compass on every

eet that goes across it. Right across the street from the end of Central Avenue is a big house. There it was staring us r

ed!"

our luck. That's the kind of a house that has a hall going right through

d. "What good does that do us?

e for strategy

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