Author: Joseph Bushnell Ames
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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Joseph Bushnell Ames
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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"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....."

Author: William Hillcourt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671249274
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Robert Baden-Powell
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486318125
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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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.

Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780756672270
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book is illustrated with full-color photographs and memorabilia items and the captures the adventure and spirit of the United States' largest youth organization.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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Author: Meredith Nicholson
Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.

Author: David I. Macleod
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299094041
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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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.

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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.