Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp
t was his? As soon as he told me, I marked off my claim the same as any scout would. Maybe I ought to have rememb
foot. That's one thing I wouldn't do. I wouldn't even have bothered to tell you ab
It must have been cut out of a piece of wood from a grocery box, because I noticed on the other side of it, it said "Ho
here's my chance to do a good turn and I have to thank the honorable Elk Patrol for giving me the chance." Then I turned the big wooden medal over so the other side
e never bothered with things like that. "Settle your own disputes," that's what he always said. The only fello
ng here." I went over to the rail where all of the fellows were watching and there was a rowboat with two men in it, headed straight for us. Pretty soon they came along
fter Lieutenant Donnelle. They're going to search the ho
them said, "We just want to
me any questions if I wasn't there. And I was on the side of Lieutenant Donnelle, I didn't care what. So I went into the
gone?" I
," he
, "What did
ors," he said; "and they wan
if a boat has a fixed engine, it has to have a license and
, "if we had one it prob
nary engine," he sai
?" I asked, because I w
a life preserver for everyb
ved. "Isn't Pee-wee fo
dn't have one and have the number on his boat, like everybody has to. Anyway, it was lucky for him that he didn't have any number on, because now they'd have a hard job finding him, especially because I knew he didn't give his right name. And then I began wondering about the adventure that Jake and Lieutenant Don
chairs. Oh, it was fine. It was all pitch dark and all you could see were the lights on the boats. All of a sudde
y. He said, "Can I sit
because I keep thinking and I want to stay right near you. I ain't m
s hand and his hand was hot-even through my khaki shirt I could
nking about a fellow that's a hero. He's a
t's what he said. Tha
s going to have more to do with Lieutenant Donnelle than I was. P