Author: Joseph Bushnell Ames
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Under Boy Scout Colors
Author: Joseph Bushnell Ames
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Under Boy Scout Colors
Author: Joseph Bushnell Ames
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
"Dale Tompkins slung the bulging bag of papers over one shoulder, and, turning away from the news-stand, walked briskly down the main street of Hillsgrove. The rain had ceased, and the wind that had howled fiercely all day long was shifting into the west, where it tore to tatters the banks of dun gray clouds, letting through gleams and patches of cold blue sky tinged with the pale, chill yellow of a typical autumn sunset. The cold look of that sunset was well borne out by a keen nip in the air, but Dale was too thankful to have it clear at all to complain. Besides, he wasn’t exactly the complaining sort. Turning up the collar of a rather shabby coat, he thrust both hands deep into his trousers’ pockets and hurried whistling along, bent on delivering his papers in the quickest possible time. “I ought to get home by seven, anyhow,” he thought calculatingly. “And if Mother’ll only give me a hurry-up snack, I’ll be in time for meeting.” He rolled the last word under his tongue with the prideful accent of a novice. Then, with a sudden start, one hand jerked out of his pocket and slipped between the buttons of the thread-bare coat. For an anxious moment it groped there before the fingers closed over a metal badge, shaped like a trefoil, that was pinned securely to the flannel shirt. A somewhat sheepish grin overspread the freckled face, and through an open gate Dale shot a paper dexterously across the porch to land accurately in the middle of the door-mat....."
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
"Dale Tompkins slung the bulging bag of papers over one shoulder, and, turning away from the news-stand, walked briskly down the main street of Hillsgrove. The rain had ceased, and the wind that had howled fiercely all day long was shifting into the west, where it tore to tatters the banks of dun gray clouds, letting through gleams and patches of cold blue sky tinged with the pale, chill yellow of a typical autumn sunset. The cold look of that sunset was well borne out by a keen nip in the air, but Dale was too thankful to have it clear at all to complain. Besides, he wasn’t exactly the complaining sort. Turning up the collar of a rather shabby coat, he thrust both hands deep into his trousers’ pockets and hurried whistling along, bent on delivering his papers in the quickest possible time. “I ought to get home by seven, anyhow,” he thought calculatingly. “And if Mother’ll only give me a hurry-up snack, I’ll be in time for meeting.” He rolled the last word under his tongue with the prideful accent of a novice. Then, with a sudden start, one hand jerked out of his pocket and slipped between the buttons of the thread-bare coat. For an anxious moment it groped there before the fingers closed over a metal badge, shaped like a trefoil, that was pinned securely to the flannel shirt. A somewhat sheepish grin overspread the freckled face, and through an open gate Dale shot a paper dexterously across the porch to land accurately in the middle of the door-mat....."
Official Boy Scout Handbook
Author: William Hillcourt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671249274
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671249274
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Boys' Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A Fifth Reader
Author: Meredith Nicholson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Scouting
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.
Scouting for Boys
Author: Robert Baden-Powell
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486318125
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This blueprint for the Boy Scout movement not only provides energetic tips on camping, tracking, and woodcraft, but offers proper Victorian-era advice on manners, self-discipline, and good citizenship. Includes the original illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486318125
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This blueprint for the Boy Scout movement not only provides energetic tips on camping, tracking, and woodcraft, but offers proper Victorian-era advice on manners, self-discipline, and good citizenship. Includes the original illustrations.
Building Character in the American Boy
Author: David I. Macleod
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299094041
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class boyhood. Back in print; First paperback edition.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299094041
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class boyhood. Back in print; First paperback edition.
The Overland Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description