s aren't as helpless as you think they are. Come on, help get
ready."

* * * * *

At about half-past seven, people began coming and I could see that we
were going to have a big house, I mean a big car. First an automobile
full of people arrived and then a lot more who had walked from
Skiddyunk. Then a couple more automobiles came and pretty soon there
were a half a dozen of them parked around the car, and the seats inside
the car were full. Westy stood on the platform collecting ten cents from
each one and letting them through, past the screen. Oh, boy, there was
some crowd.

Pretty soon the store man came over and said that as long as the weather
was so warm, it would be a good idea to open the car windows and have
standing room outside. So he gave us some boxes and barrels and things
to put outside the windows for people to stand on. All the people out
there paid their ten cents just the same and they laughed and said it
was a lot of fun. Some of them were summer people, I guess; holdovers.
The girls from _Camp Smile Awhile_ came over in two canoes and a
rowboat.

When there wasn't space for another head to stick through a window, I
got up in front of the screen and made a speech. This is what I said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we thank you for coming to see our show, and
we hope you'll like it. I guess maybe I ought to tell you about
Temple Camp, then you'll understand the pictures better.

"Temple Camp is where lots of scouts go in the summer. It's near
the Hudson. Maybe you've heard about all the different things that
scouts learn how to do. So these pictures will show you some of
those things.

"Some of the things are hard, but some of them are easy, like
eating and things like that. Especially desserts. So now the show
will begin."

First we flashed the sentence that is in the handbook:

A SCOUT IS HANDY AND USEFUL

and then came the picture of Pee-wee with a big white apron on,
standing in front of the stove in the cooking shack, stirring a big
boiler full of soup. I heard one of the girls say, "Oh, _isn't_ he
simply too cute for _anything_!" Then we flashed another sentence that
said:

A SCOUT IS SKILFUL

and then came the picture of Pee-wee standing at the kitchen table,
rolling dough. Everybody applauded and the girls said it was wonderful,
but that anyway, the Boy Scouts