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XVII A WILD-CAT RIDE 92 XVIII THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 100 XIX WESTY 107 XX TAKING IT EASY 112 XXI THE SHERIFF ARRIVES 118 XXII RAILROADING 123 XXIII CRAZY STUFF 127 XXIV UP IN THE AIR 132 XXV IN THE DARK 137 XXVI WALTER HARRIS, SCOUT 144 XXVII "POTS" 150 XXVIII "SEEN IN THE MOVIES" 154 XXIX "FOILED" 159 XXX OUR PATROL "SING" 166 XXXI FLIMDUNK SIDING 170 XXXII EXPLORING 177 XXXIII OUR YOUNG HERO 181 XXXIV THE TRAIN 186 XXXV THE PROFITEERS 190 XXXVI A FRIEND IN NEED 200 XXXVII TENDERFLOPS AND OTHER FLOPS 206 XXXVIII ALL ABOARD 213 ROY BLAKELEY'S CAMP ON WHEELS CHAPTER I BREWSTER'S CENTRE Maybe you think just because scouts go camping in the summer time, and take hikes and all that, that there's nothing to do in the winter. But I'm always going to stick up for winter, that's one sure thing. Anyway, this story isn't exactly a winter story, it's a kind of a fall story--lightweight. Maybe after this I'll write a heavyweight winter story. Dorry Benton (he's in my patrol) says that if this story should run into the winter, I can use heavier paper for the last part of it. That fellow's crazy. Believe _me_, there's plenty happening in the fall and in the winter; look at nutting and skating and ice-boating. Only last winter there were two big fires here in Bridgeboro and one of them was the High School. Gee whiz, what more could you want? But the best fire I ever went to was when the Brewster's Centre railroad station burned down. That was three or four years ago, and the railroad decided that as long as there was going to be a big war in Europe, they wouldn't build a new station. It won't do you any good to look on the map for Brewster's Centre, because you won't find it. Even with a microscope you couldn't find it. The reason you can't find it is, because it isn't there. I guess the men who made the map couldn't make a small enou
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