The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys, by Richard Harding Davis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys Author: Richard Harding Davis Release Date: January 13, 2010 [EBook #30953] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOY SCOUT AND OTHER STORIES *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net “But how,” he demanded, “how do I get ashore?” THE BOY SCOUT AND OTHER STORIES FOR BOYS BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 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.