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Title: The Boy Scout

Author: Richard Harding Davis

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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
because the copy-books tell you it deserves another, but in spite of
that pleasing possibility. If you are a true scout, until you have
performed your act of kindness your day is dark. You are as unhappy
as is the grown-up who has begun his day without shaving or reading
the New York _Sun_. But as soon as you have proved yourself you may,
with a clear conscience, look the world in the face and untie the
knot in your kerchief.

Jimmie Reeder untied the accusing knot in his scarf at just ten
minutes past eight on a hot August morning after he had given one
dime to his sister Sadie. With that she could either witness the
first-run films at the Palace, or by dividing her fortune patronize
two of the nickel shows on Lenox Avenue. The choice Jimmie left to