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Title: Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Release Date: April 5, 2008 [eBook #25002]

Language: English

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ROY BLAKELEY'S BEE-LINE HIKE

by

PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH

Author of
Tom Slade, Boy Scout, Tom
Slade at Temple Camp,
Roy Blakeley, Etc.

Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen

Published with the Approval of
the Boy Scouts of America

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers : : New York

Made in the United States of America

[Illustration: "DON'T GRAB IT YET," I SAID. "WAIT. DON'T LET GO."
_Frontispiece--(Page 164)_]

Copyright, 1922, by
Grosset & Dunlap

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I WE LOSE A MEMBER 1
II MISSIONARY WORK 4
III A SOLEMN PLEDGE 10
IV WE START 18
V A STUMBLING BLOCK 25
VI A PROPOSITION 31
VII FAMINE 37
VIII REEL ADVENTURE 44
IX DIPLOMACY 50
X THE BEE-LINE 55
XI EATS 61
XII BLACK OR WHITE 66
XIII BANDITS AND THINGS 73
XIV THE HAUNTED WHEEL 78
XV A SCOUT IS OBSERVANT 82
XVI SUSPENSE 87
XVII THE HERO 91
XVI