“But how,” he demanded, “how do I get ashore?”
THE BOY SCOUT
AND OTHER STORIES FOR BOYS
BY
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1917
COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1903, 1912, 1914, 1917, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are certain of his stories that go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and sympathies and make for him quite unforgettable literature. A few of these were made some years ago into a volume, “Stories for Boys,” and found a large and enthusiastic special public in addition to Davis’s general readers; and the present collection from stories more recently published is issued with the same motive. This book takes its title from “The Boy Scout,” the first of its tales; and it includes “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “Blood Will Tell,” the immortal “Gallegher,” and “The Bar Sinister,” Davis’s famous dog story. It is a fresh volume added to what Augustus Thomas calls “safe stuff to give to a young fellow who likes to take off his hat and dilate his nostrils and feel the wind in his face.”
| CONTENTS | |
| PAGE | |
| [The Boy Scout] | 3 |
| [The Boy Who Cried Wolf] | 42 |
| [Gallegher] | 82 |
| [Blood Will Tell] | 158 |
| [The Bar Sinister] | 212 |