ll talk to you on the sly. It's all right to lik

o like everybody. But you do what the

ming badge is a go

me that was the one they wanted him to

ie. I shouldn't think there'd be any objection to trying now; then after you'v

said, "and I like the one with the picture of a r

ow to swim. Anyway, Connie knows best; and he's you

o beat everybody

e. Anyway, he went and I noticed how skinny his legs were. It made me feel awful sorry for him, because his suit didn't fit him and looked kind of funny. His eyes were

e Artie Van Arlen- he's got eleven merit badges and he's got the bronze medal. Maybe you'd say photography was his bug, but

t read the Handbook through. All of a sudden, when he'd be reading it, he'd see something that he liked, and good night, he'd forget everything else. Mr. Ellsworth said Skinny would never do anything except one thing

t was Hunt Ward; he can swim better than any Raven, or Silver Fox, either-I have to admit that. Especially it's good to go in for the swimming badge right away as soon a

d as soon as it got close enough, we gave Captain Savage a good cheer. Captain Savage was standing up in the little house smoking his p

r; do you know how many feet you've got?" Pee-wee shouted back, "Two; wh

thing-um-bobs-you know what I mean. And he was in such a hurry that he didn't come on the house-boat at all. But he said we had a mi

hat when the tug came it would tow us behind with a long rope and it seemed funny like, to be tied f

l the time. I guess maybe Captain Savage liked Pee-wee. Anyway, he called for Pee-wee and me to go up in the pilot house, and i

ay. Now, if this here old craft was an automobile, how much would I have to pay for t

to stop at Peekskill and he took us all ashore for a peek- that's what he sai

But, any way, we should worry, there isn't any tide above Poughkeepsie and any dinky little kicker could tow us up to Catskill Landing

obliged to him and, oh, boy, when that tug started down the river again, didn't we stand on the cabin roof of the

but he was o