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    The Boy Scout
    The Boy Scout
    The Boy Scout
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    The Boy Scout

    By Richard Davis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Boy Scout
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    Richard Davis

    Richard Davis was born and educated in Melbourne and now lives in Queensland. He was encouraged in his writing by Alan Marshall, Ivan Southall and later, Nobel prize-winning author Patrick White. Richard pursued a successful career in commerce before taking up full-time writing in 1997. Since then his published works have included three internationally acclaimed biographies of musicians: Geoffrey Parsons - Among Friends (ABC Books), Eileen Joyce: A Portrait (Fremantle Press) and Anna Bishop - The Adventures of an Intrepid Prima Donna (Currency Press). The latest in this series is Wotan’s Daughter - The Life of Marjorie Lawrence.

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      The Boy Scout - Richard Davis

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Boy Scout, by Richard Harding Davis

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      Title: The Boy Scout

      Author: Richard Harding Davis

      Release Date: October 8, 2006 [eBook #19501]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOY SCOUT***

      E-text prepared by Jacqueline Jeremy

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      THE BOY SCOUT

      Jimmie dropped the valise, forced his cramped fingers into

      straight lines, and saluted. Page 10

      THE BOY SCOUT

      BY

      RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

      NEW YORK

      CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

      1914

      Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons

      Published May, 1914

      THE BOY SCOUT

      A rule of the Boy Scouts is every day to do some one a good turn. Not because the copy-books tell you it deserves another, but in spite of that pleasing possibility. If you are a true scout, until you have performed your act of kindness your day is dark. You are as unhappy as is the grown-up who has begun his day without shaving or reading the New York Sun. But as soon as you have proved yourself you may, with a clear conscience, look the world in the face and untie the knot in your kerchief.

      Jimmie Reeder untied the accusing knot in his scarf at just ten minutes past eight on a hot August morning after he had given one dime to his sister Sadie. With that she could either witness the first-run films at the Palace, or by dividing her fortune patronize two of the nickel shows on Lenox Avenue. The choice Jimmie left to her. He was setting out for the annual encampment of the Boy Scouts at Hunter's Island, and in the excitement of that adventure even the movies ceased to thrill. But Sadie also could be unselfish. With a heroism of a camp-fire maiden she made a gesture which might have been interpreted to mean she was returning the money.

      I can't, Jimmie! she gasped. I can't take it off you. You saved it, and you ought to get the fun of it.

      I haven't saved it yet, said Jimmie. "I'm going to cut

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