Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp

ives out our way. He said we could fix it up and use it to go to Temple Camp in. It was a peach of a boat and took the hills fine- that's what we

are. Westy Martin said it was on the square, all right. He's a crazy kid, that fellow is. Anyway, the boat didn't

re and showed it to us. Just as we were coming near it, a fellow jumped out of it and ran away through the marshes.

" I said; and Mr. Donnelle said he

re about him before, because I didn't know, but believe me, that fellow was-what do you call it- you know

idn't break it open, especially because there were plenty of lockers besides that one. I bet you'd like to know what was in that locker. But y

it's right on the shore of Black Lake-oh, it's peachy. You'll see it, all right, and you'll see Jeb Rushmore-he's camp manager. He used to be a trapper out west. You'll see us all around camp-fire-you wait. Mr. Ellsworth say

ed and an engine would cost a hundred and fifty dollars. Nix on the engine, you can bet. But, oh, boy, there's one thing Mr. Ellsworth said and it's true, I've got to admit that. He said th

n, and oh, believe me,

ge so it could get through. Oh, wasn't that old tug captain mad! He kept whistling and whistling and saying things about the river being an

ccount of being an old veteran himself, and then some of us fellows fished up an old key-bar that had been lost in the river and o

e troop cut-up. Anyway, old Captain Savage took me up to North Bridgeboro with him and first I was kind of scared of him, because he had a bi

he was going to tow us up as far as Poughkeepsie the next Saturday, and that if we refused on account of scouts not being willing to accept anything for a service, he'd make

y anyway, in the house-boat. And believe me, we had some trip, and

er. His mother is poor and she goes out washing, and Skinny was sick and his clothes were all in rags, and even he didn't have any shoes and stockings. But, anyway, he did me a good turn and so Westy Martin and I go

ow. Sandy has a boat with a heavy duty motor in it, and he said he'd do the job for ten dollars, because, anyway, he'd go to Princess Bay fi

would pay back two dollars and a half as soon as they earned it. That would make seven dollars and a half, and Mr. Ellsworth

fun earning that money

the Raven Pa

age, saying that we should wait in the anchorage off St. George at Staten Island, until he came and got us. He s

ause it would only be slow. Gee, williger, a story that's being towed against the tide wouldn't

we'd sleep. Two patrols would sleep in the two rooms and one patrol on deck under the awnin

but there are some peachy boats in the anchorage there-regular yachts and big cabin cruisers. And that's where our adventures b

w how to make flapjacks and hunters' stew, and a lot of things. After supper the fellows decided to go ashore to St. George and get some sodas and take in a movie show. I said I

next chapter, because so