Roy Blakeley, Pathfinder

"Guess the poles are burned down," a fellow's voice answered. "We can't even get Central. Have you got water?" he fairly wailed. "We're going to be burned alive! Have you got wa...

The reason I said that about the two hundred dollars causing a lot of trouble at Temple Camp, was, because a little fellow there named Skinny McCord (you'll see him after a whil...

All right, there isn't much more. We had no guess how long the man had been in the boat or whether he had starved or what. He might have been dead several days, I thought. The l...

As soon as we got the leopard into Mr. Hasbrook's barn, we made a hay bed in one of the stalls and laid him there. I felt awful sorry for him now that I knew about his history....

Those scouts that we met were nice fellows. They were hiking back to Newburgh; that's where they lived. They told us they had hiked up along the river to visit a place named Elm...

The fellows were all waiting for us when we came out and we hiked out to where those scouts had their camp. There were only five of them, one patrol, and the biggest one was a k...

First I thought I was going to fall, but I reached up and got hold of the branch above and scrambled up to it. The animal was crouching on the ground, looking up, and its eyes w...

The Church Mice didn't even make up a full patrol, because there were only five of them counting Brent Gaylong. Maybe the rest of them stayed home. Only three of them had the un...

Now this chapter goes from the bottom of that mountain to the top of a pineapple soda in Bennett's. That's in Bridgeboro where I live. The first house we came to along the road...

As soon as I told Westy about it, he said he'd go into Haverstraw so as to save time, while I went back to camp and got the rest of the fellows. Oh boy, didn't I hustle. I went...

This is the last chapter and it's very short. Maybe you'll say that's one good thing. But it's a good one just the same. It's a peach--I mean a pineapple. It's the best chapter...

This story is all about a hike. It starts on Bridge Street and ends on Bridge Street. Maybe you'll think it's just a street story. But that's where you'll get left. It starts at...

That station stood all by itself, and it was pitch dark all around. It reminded me of the Grand Central Station, it was so different. First we tried the door and it was locked....

I was sitting up on a branch of a tree when they came along and I heard the postmaster saying that Cy Berry had lost his heifer and he guessed maybe now it was found.

"It's a leopard; you can see it for yourself." Harry said, "Sit down, Kiddo, and--rest and have a cup of coffee. Guess you fell asleep by the wayside, hey? Tell us all about you...

One thing, I wouldn't let anybody talk against Dorry Benton. Even I wouldn't have told you about that, only he said it was all right. I knew all the time that he would never che...

So you see it's best to always think twice before you do a good turn. Don't be in too much of a hurry about it. Because a good turn might go wild and cause a lot of trouble. You...

So that's all I can tell you about their talk, because when I went back Harry was waiting for us near the entrance. All I can tell you is what happened. On the way back through...

When they came back the keeper was leading Marshal Foch with a rope, and the fly paper was gone from his head and his body. Harry Donnelle said they melted the stickum with gaso...

Anyway, that was the smallest village I ever saw to have such big tracks right near it. All I could see was two houses and the post office, and the post office was so small that...

Anyway, the day passed soon enough, even if we didn't have much to do, and after supper, Harry said very innocent sort of, "Roy, suppose you and Dorry hike into Kingston with me...

"I don't mean just a little stroll down to the village or even over as far as the Hudson," he said; "but a hike that _is_ a hike. Do you think you could roll up a hundred miles?"

That same day we hiked out through Woodstock. Harry Donnelle said we had to be careful, because the woods were infested with poets and authors and artists, but I should worry, w...

For a couple of minutes I could hardly speak, I was so surprised. The picture in that article was the picture of _Jib Jab, is he human?_ I knew by the wavy hair and the look he...

Jiminy crinkums, I may be a nut (that's what the troop calls me anyway), but I'm not a freak and, believe me, when I saw who I was going to have dinner with that day--_good night!_

One thing about Harry Donnelle, he was a dandy fixer. When he fixed the camouflage for us so we could watch a chipmunk, I knew he was a good fixer. He said he learned how in Fra...

Now that it was too late, I could see that if I had only landed that meat inside the house, it would have been easy to get away. And the animal would have been a prisoner, too,...

Harry said, "Oh, you were one of those fellows, eh? Glad to see that you got back to the States all right. I came to see you, but I didn't know who you were; that is, I didn't k...

Anyway, there was one person we never saw in the camp-fire blaze and that was Mr. Costello. If we had, we wouldn't have seen the blaze. He was so big that he would have filled t...

Gee whiz, I didn't even know that he had stopped talking. I was just looking into the blaze and I could see the whole thing right there. Maybe it wasn't true at all, but anyway,...

I went back through the woods and when I got to the road I noticed how it curved, and just then I saw a very narrow path on the opposite side of the road that led into the woods...

I stopped for two or three seconds, because I didn't know just what to do, then I walked up to the tree and just as I came near, the form stepped out from behind it.

It was a jungle of underbrush, that's what Harry said. Pretty soon the trail just fizzled out in the bushes. We poked around with our lanterns and found a spring there. I guess...

Gaylong just rested his leg on his other knee and clasped his hands in back of his head and kept looking up at the sky. He said, "So that's the story of the adventurous Church M...

All the while as we hiked along the road toward Saugerties, we kept joking about the wild animals in the Catskills. Harry Donnelle said there used to be lots of wild cats and fo...

Oh, it was great to watch Harry--the way he acted. He just said, "A soldier, eh? Sit down, we were just going to have a bite to eat. I was in the big scrap, myself." That's what...

Before we were finished I could hear the band playing outside and when I went out all the wagons and chariots and things were in a line ready to start. There were two elephants,...

Honestly, inside of five minutes that wild animal was a wreck. Every time he tried to claw the paper from his head he howled, because it pulled his hair and hurt him. I don't sa...

"Funny thing, too," he said; "but we were trying to dope out the meaning of that letter, all sitting around the camp-fire. We even thought we could see the old gent. Old veteran...

Buy remember, I told you that the hike didn't really begin till we got to Catskill. The reason I don't count the hike from Temple Camp to Catskill is because we were all the tim...