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Title: The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Release Date: January 13, 2010 [EBook #30953]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "But how," he demanded, "how do I get ashore?"]

THE BOY SCOUT

AND OTHER STORIES FOR BOYS

BY

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1917

COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1903, 1912, 1914, 1917, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him,
was "youth incarnate," and there is probably nothing that he wrote of
which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are
certain of his stories that go with especial directness to a boy's heart
and sympathies and make for him quite unforgettable literature. A few of
these were made some years ago into a volume, "Stories for Boys," and
found a large and enthusiastic special public in addition to Davis's
general readers; and the present collection from stories more recently
published is issued with the same motive. This book takes its title from
"The Boy Scout," the first of its tales; and it includes "The Boy Who
Cried Wolf," "Blood Will Tell," the immortal "Gallegher," and "The Bar
Sinister," Davis's famous dog story. It is a fresh volume added to what
Augustus Thomas calls "safe stuff to give to a young fellow who likes to
take off his hat and dilate his nostrils and feel the wind in his face."

CONTENTS
PAGE
The Boy Scout 3
The Boy Who Cried Wolf 42
Gallegher 82
Blood Will Tell 158
The Bar Sinister 212

ILLUSTRATIONS

"But how," he demanded, "how do I get ashore?" Frontispiece