Identifier: royblakeleyscamp00fitz (find matches)
Title: Roy Blakeley's camp on wheels
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese, 1876-1950
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t with the movie lamp, Itold him. Oh, boy, we were some busy crew. The woodthat had been nailed up under the car in BrewstersCentre was in long strips, and we hauled a coupleof the longest ones out double quick. It wasnt ex-actly my idea, what we did; it was all of ourideas, I guess. We planned it out while we werehustling. One of those long strips we stuck out of the win-dow and then held it up outside. One end of itwas inside the car, resting on the seat, and theother end pointed up as straight as we could holdit outside. It reached up past the roof. Two ofus held it that way, while two others did the samething with another one through the window justopposite. So you see those two long strips stuckup, one on either side of the roof. They didntstand up straight on account of sticking downthrough the windows, but they slanted away fromeach other up above. It took four of us to holdthem that way. While we were doing that, Pee-wee had the lit-tle movie lamp turned up so it smoked and he
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SPRAWLING RIGHT ACROSS THAT SHEET WAS THE WORD STOP.Roy Blakeleys Camp on Wheels. Page 150 THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBVATIY ASTOB, LENOX ANDTILDgN FOUNDATIONSK L CAMP ON WHEELS 147 held the piece of glass over it until it was all blackwith soot. Pee-wee was all black with soot,too. A scout is thorough. In two minutesmore, I guess, he would have been disguisedas a negro. Turn it down, I said; thats enough. Areyou game to climb up on the car? Get the sheetand the rope, quick. Pee-wee was game for anything. You neversaw him back down, did you? Not even—butnever mind. Thats a thing of the past. In fiveseconds that little monkey was up on top of thecar with the screen cloth and the rope that wealways used to hang it from. I called up out ofthe window for him to look out. I dont see any trains, he shouted down.I mean look out for yourself, I said. Tiethe rope across from one stick to the other as highas you can reach, Wig shouted; and be carefulwhen you stand up. Thats nothing, Pee-wee shouted

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