“And will you clap?”
“When you hear me clap you’ll think it’s a whole troop.”
“I bet your troop think a lot of you.”
“They could be arrested if they said out loud what they think of me.”
“My father got arrested once.”
“Well, I hope they won’t trip you up. That was a fine stunt you did, Skinny. When those trustees and scoutmasters once get busy with the handbook, good night, it reminds you of boyhood’s happy school days.”
“It’s all on page thirty,” Skinny said; “and I’ve done all of those ten things, because the tracking made ten, and Mr. Elting said as long as you said you saw me do it, it’s all right, because he knows you tell the truth.”
“Well, that’s one good thing about me,” Hervey laughed.
“And he said you came near winning the Eagle award, too. He said you only just missed it. I bet you’re a hero, ain’t you?”
“Some hero.”