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Various. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories
The Boy Scouts Book of Stories
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
By Owen Johnson
II.—A Twilight Adventure[C]
By Melville Davisson Post
III.—Tad Sheldon, Second-Class Scout[D]
By John Fleming Wilson
IV.—The Red-Headed League
By Arthur Conan Doyle
V.—The Ransom of Red Chief[E]
By O. Henry
VI.—The Honk-Honk Breed[F]
By Stewart Edward White
VII.—The Devil-Fish[G]
By Norman Duncan
VIII.—The Jumping Frog[H]
By Mark Twain
IX.—Bingism[I]
By Booth Tarkington
X.—Concho Curly at the Op'ra[J]
By Edward Beecher Bronson
XI.—The Lie[K]
By Hermann Hagedorn
XII.—Story of the Bandbox
By Robert Louis Stevenson
XIII.—The Hero and the Cowboy[L]
By Joseph C. Lincoln
XIV—The Dollar[M]
By Morgan Robertson
XV.—The Mascot of "Troop 1"[N]
By Stephen Chalmers
XVI.—The Lion's Smile[O]
By Thomas W. Hanshew
XVII.—The Roll-Call of The Reef[P]
By A. T. Quiller-Couch
XVIII.—The House and The Brain[Q]
By Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
FOOTNOTES:
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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Intrenched behind a gigantic mit, the Big Man strove valorously to hold the difficult balls. After a long period of this mitigated pleasure they sat down to rest. Then Cap Kiefer's stocky figure appeared around the Dickinson, and the Butcher went off for a long, solemn consultation.
The Big Man, thus relieved of responsibility, felt terribly alone. He went to his room and took down volume two of "The Count of Monte Cristo," and stretched out on the window-seat. Somehow the stupendous adventures failed to enthrall him. It was still throughout the house. He caught himself listening for the patter of Hickey's shoes above, dancing a breakdown, or the rumble of Egghead's laugh down the hall, or a voice calling, "Who can lend me a pair of suspenders?"
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