“Are we really Cubs now?” Pat asked, his eyes gleaming.
“Not yet, but soon,” Dan answered with a friendly grin. “You fellows have plenty to learn.”
“The salute?” Pat chuckled. “Nothing to that.” He raised his right hand, smartly paying deference to all the Cubs.
“There are even more important things, Pat.”
“Don’t I know?” the Bay Shore boy drawled. “Honor and honesty and loyalty to friends. It may take me a long while, but with your help, Dan, someday I’ll be the fairest, squarest Cub of the lot!”
THE END
Transcriber’s Notes
- Silently corrected a large number of palpable typos in spelling and punctuation (merely nonstandard spelling was not changed)
- Inverted the order of two paragraphs of dialogue at the top of page 59 to correct a typesetting error.
- Rearranged front matter to a more-logical streaming order.