Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp
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Chapter 5 TELLS ABOUT SKINNY'S MERIT BADGE
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lots to see who'd be deck steward for the day, and Skinny was the one. That meant he'd have to swee
le we were peeling the potatoes, Skinny came in and showed me three or four dimes and some pennies, and said he found them on
better give them to Mr. Ellsworth. "One of them is a French co
mbing over the rail," Charlie said, "and maybe didn
a French coin and l
, Mr. Ellsworth asked us if any fellow owned a French coin that was missing. Nobody said yes, and then he said, kind of funny like, "Well, I suppose this is what our young friend
d Mr. Ellsworth said we'd give that to Skinny, because he found the money. He
would have done. Maybe it would have been all right to keep still because I wasn't dead sure whose it was. But all the while I kn
rit badge, it's for keeping my eyes open, and will you bore a hole
e rest of the fellows. Even if it was only a little thing that he was interested in, he got all excited about it, and his eyes got all bright and if he grabbed you by the arm you could feel that his hand was trembling-he'd be so excited. We made a lot of allowance for him, because he was sick and came out of the slums, but anyway, one trouble with him was, that Mr. Ellsworth couldn't make hi
was scoutmaster and everything else. He began clutching me by the arm and saying, "I got it for k
u what you do Alf." (I wasn't going to be calling him Skinny,) I said, "You go and ask Vic Norris if he's got an awl or a small gimle
dle and asked me if it would do. I think he
o. Come ahead, and let
oing to r
e you better than an
I told him; "you can cut out the guys
nice and sunny and you could see the sun in the water. Over on shore, in St. George, I could hear a church bell and it sounded clear. There weren't many boats out, except sometimes the boats to Coney Island went by and we could hear the
out me, I'm always
window. I guess nobody noticed us; nobody said anything e
have dinner?" Honest, that fellow n
was on two barrels. I used it to open cans on and slice bread and all that. And I always washed it good and clean, you can bet. Oh, but i
other us here," I said,
, but
tmas best, because rich pe
elt awful s
Chapter End
1 Chapter 1 TELLS YOU HOW WE GOT STARTED2 Chapter 2 TELLS YOU HOW I HAD A VISITOR3 Chapter 3 TELLS HOW I MADE A PROMISE4 Chapter 4 TELLS ABOUT THE PAPER I FOUND5 Chapter 5 TELLS ABOUT SKINNY'S MERIT BADGE6 Chapter 6 TELLS HOW SKINNY AND I GOT TOGETHER7 Chapter 7 TELLS ABOUT MY MERIT BADGE8 Chapter 8 TELLS ABOUT OUR TRIP UP THE HUDSON9 Chapter 9 TELLS ABOUT SKINNY'S SWIMMING LESSON10 Chapter 10 TELLS ABOUT SKINNY AND THE ELKS11 Chapter 11 TELLS YOU HOW TO GET TO TEMPLE CAMP12 Chapter 12 TELLS ALL ABOUT OUR ROW ON BLACK LAKE13 Chapter 13 TELLS ABOUT THE STRANGE CAMPERS14 Chapter 14 TELLS ABOUT THE STORM ON BLACK LAKE15 Chapter 15 TELLS ABOUT AN ACCIDENT16 Chapter 16 TELLS ABOUT SKINNY'S ABSENCE17 Chapter 17 TELLS ABOUT CAMP-FIRE AND SKINNY18 Chapter 18 TELLS ABOUT MY TALK WITH BERT WINTON19 Chapter 19 TELLS ABOUT A VISIT FROM ACROSS THE LAKE20 Chapter 20 TELLS ABOUT THE LOSS OF SOME MONEY21 Chapter 21 TELLS ABOUT MY TALK WITH MR. ELLSWORTH22 Chapter 22 TELLS ABOUT HOW I VISITED THE OHIO TROOP'S CABIN23 Chapter 23 TELLS ABOUT HOW I DID A GOOD TURN24 Chapter 24 TELLS ABOUT HOW I TOLD A SECRET25 Chapter 25 TELLS ABOUT THE LETTER WE WROTE26 Chapter 26 TELLS ABOUT GEOGRAPHY AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF27 Chapter 27 TELLS ABOUT HOW WE TRIED TO STOP IT RAINING28 Chapter 28 TELLS ABOUT HOW DAME NATURE CHANGED HER MIND29 Chapter 29 TELLS ABOUT HOW WE LOOKED INTO THE PIT30 Chapter 30 TELLS ABOUT HOW TIGERS LEAP31 Chapter 31 TELLS ABOUT THE OLD PASSAGEWAY32 Chapter 32 TELLS ABOUT WHAT I DISCOVERED IN REBELS' CAVE33 Chapter 33 TELLS ABOUT HOW WESTY AND I WAITED34 Chapter 34 TELLS ABOUT THE STRANGE FIGURE35 Chapter 35 TELLS ABOUT A NEW CAMP36 Chapter 36 TELLS ABOUT WHAT BERT TOLD ME37 Chapter 37 TELLS ABOUT HOW I VISITED CAMP MC CORD38 Chapter 38 TELLS ABOUT THE SCOUT PACE39 Chapter 39 TELLS ABOUT HOW CAMP MC CORD DIDN'T STRIKE ITS COLORS