Roy Blakeley

cause he's a cracker-jack on wig-wag signalling. He's good on all the different kinds of signalling. He's

the troop. That's how it started. There are about half a million scouts

ering that he's a Raven and there's one good thing about him anyway-and that's that his mother always gives us cookies and things when we go on a hike. I got

et credit unless he uses his brains and does everything all right. And that

. He said, "Never forget to take down a sign when it's no use anymore." Well, when I found I wasn't going to die a terrible death (that's what Pee-wee called it) I didn't have sense enough to take away that note that I stuck on the reeds. When I stuck it there I reac

down, we'd float her down with it to the Bridgeboro River and then wait for the up tide to float her upstream to Bridgeboro. We decided that we'd rather fix her up in Bridgeboro. So you see that this c

was Weetonka, the famous Indian chief. Doc Carson dropped his paint brush

ng," Pee-wee shouted, "it l

the middle to ride in it, I c

ou all the ti

by a band of A

f a band?" P

told him; "a brass

ck!" he said, k

stake, only the butcher didn't bring it, then they decided the

ll think all us fellows are crazy, especially me. I should worry. I told them I escaped in the canoe and all that kind of stuff, but at last I tol

look at the map, hey? Oh, but first I want to tell you about the name we gave it. Some name! We christened it

me and then we mixed the three names up and made one nam

es voted the name Weetonka, on account of me. Then we wrote all these letters do

EKITW

were all sitting around in the two cabin roo

Bolshevik name,"

use, of course, I knew we'd have to send the name to the infernal revenue people-I mean inter

I said, "you don't

rson said, It's as long as a spel

e name; it'll take a lot of

ld worry

roop cook, and we thought it was best to eat

but that was because they di

u may be old and weak yourselves some day." I

g over, and pushed her off with our scout staffs whenever she ran against the shores. She didn't keep head on, but that was no ma

hen we made a

hree or four of us could have gone ashore with a rope and tied her in the channel, which ran along the near shore. Then al

hat the tide would do to us, unless we were on the job and sure enough

said when I he

to know the tide is stronger here

fference?" Dor

tie her. When the tide changes, we'll float off and go on upstream a

to see the flats all around us and there wasn't any water near us at all-only the water in the channel away over near the west shore. We were high and

efore the water would go down and then come up enough to carry us off, Doc Car

flats between us and the channel. Pretty soon we could hear voices-all thin, s

said. After a while another fellow said he thought

Connie Bennett

te something about "bad news." Pretty soon, through the steady chugging I coul

, all right. Pretty soon the engine began chugging double, sort of, and I knew they were going a

ick head. And even then it was on account of something else they said, as the chugging grew fainter all the time. It seemed as if I heard it while I was dreaming,

hat's what I said, "but he had a

must have been up that creek fishing and found that note of mine

ellows!" I said; "

it was no use, for nobody answered. I guess the wind must have been blowing our way or something-a

e he thought it would stop, I guess. And gee, I didn't want her to hear any bad news, even if it wasn't true. 'Cause I knew just how she'd act-I could just see her, sort of. I guess I was kind of thinking about it and how it would be when Jake Holden went to the house, and how she'd have to wait five or six hours, maybe till morning, be

where the Ravens were all sitting on the cabi

want those men to go and tell my mother I'm dead-I-I don't. I forgot to take the note away and they're going to tell her and she-she has-her heart isn't very strong like. There's only one fellow in the troop can do it-it's you

He's always studying the Handbook. But he jumped down