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 |