Part 8 (1/2)
”Did you ever hear of anybody rolling up?” the young hero deo to sleep? You never rolled _down_, and went to sleep, did you? That shohat you know about geoeoeometry last year”
”It's about time you put it back,” Roy called
”Look out or you'll take another tumble,” Westy added
”He didn't put the last one back yet,” Roy observed
”There goes your sandwich,” another one of the Silver Foxes called with glee, as that precious re down the slanting roof
”Now you see what youdown,” Roy laughed
This is a fair sample of the fun and banter which accompanied their work and helped to make it easy and pleasant Occasionally a harracefully fro toiler with the criain the weather-stained old shacks would seehter
As for Blythe he witnessed this rateful pleasure He had expected to see the work done, but he had not expected to see it conjured by scout hborhood of their joyous labor transformed into a scene of rustic comfort
By the merest chance the scouts had come and seen and conquered, and presently the scene had that wholesome air of scout life about it It seemed to poor Blythe as if he had awakened and found hino, jollying, planning, laughing, working, cooking, eating, kindling big ca such nonsensical yarns as he had never heard before
Pee-wee and Roy in particular areatly ”Go on, make fun of him,” he would say to Roy And then he would deliberately take sides with Pee-wee against the whole troop But he was ot any adventures to tell?” Pee-wee asked hiht
”Sure,” said Roy, ”look in your pockets and see if you can't find a couple”
”I guess I'hed ”I like to hear about theh”
”I'll tell you some,” Pee-wee said ”I'll tell you how I found a wallet--”
”And a dime,” Westy interrupted
”Tell how you saved a fish fro at Temple Camp,” Roy said
”Sure, that's a fish story,” Connie piped up
So Pee-wee launched forth recounting instances fro and jollying hiht of their new friend His enjoyment seemed always an incentive to banter and nonsense
CHAPTER XI
YOUNG MR BLYTHE
It was soon apparent to the scouts that their co had saved the enterprise for Blythe He would not have been able to superintend the job with other helpers and even with the scouts he was rather their companion than their leader
His attempts at sustained labor were pitiful Yet he was never idle But heapparently that each job he started was left undone He was quite unequal to the harder part of the work, and the scouts, both kind and observant, could see that, and were content to let hiather and pile the fallen lumber and so fire, which he looked forward to with keen delight What was the matter with him, they did not know But this they did know, that he was their friend and that he took a kind of childish delight in their ca He became excited easily and would so