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The Boy Scouts Book of Stories, by Various
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Title: The Boy Scouts Book of Stories
Author: Various
Editor: Franklin Mathiews
Illustrator: Walt Louderback Arthur D. Scott
Release Date: May 8, 2009 [EBook #28726]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF STORIES
[Illustration: THE BUTCHER LOOKED DOWN AT THE FUNNY FACE AND SAW THE KINDLY MOTIVE UNDER THE EXAGGERATED BLUFFNESS
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THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF STORIES
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY FRANKLIN K. MATHIEWS CHIEF SCOUT LIBRARIAN BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED FOR THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
[Illustration]
ILLUSTRATED BY WALT LOUDERBACK
DECORATIONS BY ARTHUR D. SCOTT
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1920
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
So much of my time is given to reading boys' books that, when I read books for grown-ups, now and again I find myself sayin