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Title: Tom Slade with the Colors

Author: Percy K. Fitzhugh

Illustrator: Thomas Clarity

Release Date: April 5, 2007 [EBook #20986]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MISS ELLISON GREETED TOM WITH A MYSTERIOUS SMILE.
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TOM SLADE WITH THE COLORS

BY
PERCY K. FITZHUGH

Author of
TOM SLADE, BOY SCOUT
TOM SLADE AT TEMPLE CAMP
TOM SLADE ON THE RIVER

Illustrated by
THOMAS CLARITY

Published With the Approval of
THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1918, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Tom Makes a Promise 1
II. "Bull Head" and "Butter Fingers" 13
III. Roscoe Bent 21
IV. The Cup of Joy 27
V. The Main Trail 40
VI. Tom and the Gold Cross 49
VII. The Trail Runs Through a Pestilent Place 56
VIII. An Accident 60
IX. Roscoe Joins the Colors 66
X. Tom and Roscoe Come to Know Each Other 70
XI. Tom Meets a Stranger 79
XII. Tom Hears of the Blond Beast 85
XIII. As Others Saw Him 93
XIV. Tom Gets a Job 101
XV. The Excited Passenger 109
XVI. Tom Makes a Discovery 116
XVII. One of the Blond Beast's Weapons 124
XVIII. Sherl