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Title: Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese, 1876-1950
Subjects: Boy Scouts
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the Troop Book. At camp a Red Cross flag had been raised above Mr. Ellsworth's own tent and except for the quiet comings and going of the scoutmaster himself and Doc Carson, all was quiet here. Mrs. Bennett had expected to find the camp a scene of commotion. Good evening, Mrs. Bennett, said the scout-master, in a tone of pleasant surprise. The spider was in his web at last, but he concealed his feeling of elation. You are just in time to grace the festive board. Were going to have corn wiggles; did you ever eat a corn wiggle, Mrs. Bennett? Where is my boy? she demanded. Sit down, wont you? Hes over there learning how to tell a mushroom from a toadstool—> something every boy ought to know. And this other boy? she added, glancing inside the tent. Fine—doing fine. One of our boys hiked it to town for a doctor, and I thought you were he when the sentinel told me someone was coming. You saw me coming? No, we heard you long before we saw you. I wish now that Connover's sense of hearing were
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MRS. BENNETT COMES ACROSS 179 a little more acute. Then hed have been able todistinguish the locality of a human voice. Buttheres no use crying over spilled milk. Mrs. Bennett listened breathlessly while he re-peated the story of the afternoons occurrences.While he was talking a scout approached, removed his hat, saluted Mr. Ellsworth, and handed hima paper. It was a memorandum of the tempera-ture of the river wrater, an amateur forecast ofthe weather for the next day, and a stunt propo-sition for O. K. The scoutmaster asked one ortwo questions and dismissed the messenger. Mrs.Bennett was a little surprised to notice that thequestions seemed to bear with practical sense andforesight upon the physical welfare of the boys. Do you give your approval to everything?she asked. No—not always, he laughed. And what then? You cant watch them all. Oh, dear, no; I just give my veto and forgetit. You take the temperature of the river? Yes, and test it for impurities twice a week.Doc attends to t

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