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Title: Roy Blakeley

Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Release Date: December 31, 2003 [eBook #10552]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

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Transcriber's notes:

1. The disease "consumption" as used in this book has been renamed
in modern times. Today we call this disease "tuberculosis."
(The term "consumption" might also have been applied to other
wasting diseases such as cancer.) Of course, tuberculosis in
one as young as the character of "Skinny" is pretty serious.

2. The first 3 books in the Roy Blakeley series are pretty much
one story.

ROY BLAKELEY
HIS STORY

Being the true narrative of his adventures and those of his troop on
land and sea and in the mud--particularly in the mud. Taken from the
Troop Book of the 1st Bridgeboro Troop B. S. A. and arranged by himself
with the assistance of Pee-wee Harris and

PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH

AUTHOR OF

TOM SLADE, BOY SCOUT, TOM SLADE AT TEMPLE CAMP, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD L. HASTINGS

PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

1920

Illustration #1

"I began sinking as low as my waist"

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. TROUBLES OF MY OWN--THE BIG CONCLAVE
II. SWATTING THE SPY
III. SWATTING THE SPY--CONTINUED
IV. THE PLOT GROWS THINNER--OR ELSE THICKER
V. LOST
VI. THE TIGHT PLACE
VII. WEETONKA, THE TERRIBLE CHIEF
VIII. RESOPEKITWAFTENLY
IX. THE LOST LETTER
X. THE RAVENS
XI. LOST
XII. ARTIE'S ADVENTURE
XIII. TRACKING
XIV. THE SLACKER
XV. DURING NOON HOUR
XVI. NOBLE RAGS
XVII. THE TWO CROSSES
XVIII. SCOUT LAW N