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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
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THE BOY SCOUT
by
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
[Illustration: Jimmie dropped the valise, forced his cramped fingers into straight lines, and saluted. [Page 10]]
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1914 Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published May, 1914
[Illustration]
THE BOY SCOUT
A rule of the Boy Scouts is every day to do some one a good turn. Not