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TOM SLADE
ON MYSTERY TRAIL
CHAPTER I
THE THREE SCOUTS
At Temple Camp you may hear the story told of how Llewellyn, scout of
the first class, and Orestes, winner of the merit badges for
architecture and for music, were by their scouting skill and lore
instrumental in solving a mystery and performing a great good turn.
You may hear how these deft and cunning masters of the wood and the
water circumvented the well laid plans of evil men and cooeperated with
their brother scouts in a good scout stunt, which brought fame to the
quiet camp community in its secluded hills.
For one, as you shall see, is the bulliest tracker that ever picked his
way down out of a tangled wilderness and through field and over hill
straight to his goal.
And the other is a famous gatherer of clews, losing sight of no
significant trifle, as the scout saying is, and a star scout into the
bargain, if we are to believe Pee-wee Harris. I am not so sure that the
ten merit badges of bugling, craftsmanship, architecture, aviation,
carpentry, camping, forestry, music, pioneering and signaling should be
awarded this sprightly scout (for Pee-wee is as liberal with awards as
he is with gum-drops). But there can be no question as to the propriety
of the music and architecture awards, and I think that the aviation
award would be quite appropriate also.
Yet if you should ask old Uncle Jeb Rushmore, beloved manager of the big
scout camp, about these two scout heroes, a shrewd twinkle would appear
in his eye and he would refer you to the boys, who would probably only
laugh at you, for they are a bantering set at Temple Camp and would
jolly the life out of Daniel Boone himself if that redoubtable woodsman
were there.
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