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The Boy Scouts Book of Stories


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      The Boy Scouts Book of Stories

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664625601

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       By Owen Johnson

       II.—A Twilight Adventure [C]

       By Melville Davisson Post

       III.—Tad Sheldon, Second-Class Scout [D]

       By John Fleming Wilson

       IV.—The Red-Headed League

       By Arthur Conan Doyle

       V.—The Ransom of Red Chief [E]

       By O. Henry

       VI.—The Honk-Honk Breed [F]

       By Stewart Edward White

       VII.—The Devil-Fish [G]

       By Norman Duncan

       VIII.—The Jumping Frog [H]

       By Mark Twain

       IX.—Bingism [I]

       By Booth Tarkington

       X.—Concho Curly at the Op'ra [J]

       By Edward Beecher Bronson

       XI.—The Lie [K]

       By Hermann Hagedorn

       XII.—Story of the Bandbox

       By Robert Louis Stevenson

       XIII.—The Hero and the Cowboy [L]

       By Joseph C. Lincoln

       XIV—The Dollar [M]

       By Morgan Robertson

       XV.—The Mascot of "Troop 1" [N]

       By Stephen Chalmers

       XVI.—The Lion's Smile [O]

       By Thomas W. Hanshew

       XVII.—The Roll-Call of The Reef [P]

       By A. T. Quiller-Couch

       XVIII.—The House and The Brain [Q]

       By Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

       Table of Contents

Facing Page
The butcher looked down at the funny face and saw the kindly motive under the exaggerated bluffness Frontispiece
"Some of the men stood about; behind them two men sat on their horses, their elbows strapped to their bodies" 32
"I went to leeward and there found me bould Tad launchin' the little dingy" 64
The black scout jumps on Bill's back and digs his heels in his side 120
"'Tis the devil-fish!" screamed Bobby 140
"But before he could lite on her with his knife, I hopped out of my close-pen into the cañon" 204
He woke and gave a low cry. Some one was sitting on his bed 224
"For a second it left off rainin' sand, and there was a typhoon of mud and spray" 272

      I.—The Great Big Man[A]