The Boy Scouts MEGAPACK ®: 12 Complete Novels by Herbert Carter

Author:Herbert Carter [Carter, Herbert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: boy, scout, young adult, adventure, scouts
ISBN: 9781479408450
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

One or two of the scouts snickered at this. The sound appeared to annoy Davy, who was plainly very much in earnest.

“Huh! easy to laugh, you fellows,” he remark, with deep satire in his voice. “Mebbe, now, you, don’t believe what I’m telling you! Mebbe one of you’d like to just climb up there, and see for yourself what it is? I dare you, Bumpus!”

“You’ll have to excuse me, Davy; it’s too big a job for a boy built like me, you understand, though sure I’d like to accommodate first rate,” replied the scout with the red hair and mild blue eyes, shrinking back, and shrugging his shoulders.

“Then how about you, Step Hen,” pursued Davy, determined to put it to each of the scoffers in turn until he had shown them up in good style; “I notice that you’re looking like you didn’t reckon there couldn’t abeen such a thing as a genuine panther around this region in the last twenty years and more. Suppose you tumble up there, and take a look-in!”

But the party indicated smiled sweetly, and laid his hand on the region of his stomach, as he went on to say:

“Why, really and truly, Davy, I think I’m going to have one of those nasty cramps just like you used to have so often. There’s agripe coming on right now, and you see how unpleasant it would be to find myself doubled-up while I was thirty feet from the ground. I’m afraid I’ll have to pass this time.”

“Then, there’s Giraffe who’ll he sure to volunteer,” continued the other, bound to take all the scoffers in by turns. “He’s of an investigating turn of mind, and if he wants to, I reckon he might take that gun along, so he could have some show, if the thing jumped right out in his face!”

“Well, now,” the long-legged scout answered, with a whimsical grin, “I’d like to accommodate you the worst kind, Davy, but you know how it is with me. I ain’t worth a cooky before I’ve had my feed. Feel sorter weak about the knees, to tell you the honest truth; and I never was as keen about climbing to the top of tall trees as you were, Davy. Count me out, please, that’s a good fellow.”

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