Pee-Wee Harris Adrift

Pee-Wee Harris Adrift

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Title: Pee-Wee Harris Adrift
Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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PEE-WEE HARRIS ADRIFT
by
PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH
Author of
The Tom Slade Books The Roy Blakeley Books The Pee-Wee Harris
Books
Illustrated by H. S. Barbour

[Frontispiece: Pee-wee rowed his customers to Alligator Island.]

Published with the approval of The Boy Scouts of America Grosset &
Dunlap Publishers : : New York Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1922, by Grosset & Dunlap

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I
ALONE II SATURDAY MORNING III CASTLES IN THE AIR IV
KEEKIE JOE V A QUESTION OF DUTY VI THE MISSIONARY
VII APPLE BLOSSOM TIME VIII PEE-WEE EXPLORES THE
ISLAND IX THE LOOKOUT SEES A SAIL X THE OTHERS
ARRIVE XI PLANS XII THE DISCOVERER RETURNS XIII
"STOP" XIV "GO" XV LIFE ON THE UNKNOWN SHORE XVI

BEFORE THE PARTY XVII THE SCENE IS SET XVIII EVERY
WHICH WAY XIX THE EARTHLY PARADISE XX GONE XXI
FOILED XXII IN THE GLARE OF THE SEARCH-LIGHT XXIII
THE DREAM OF KEEKIE JOE XXIV THE MISSIONARY LANDS
ON FOREIGN SHORES XXV RETURN OF THE HERO XXVI
SHORT AND TO THE POINT XXVII SETTLED AT LAST XXVIII
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE XXIX THE RACE XXX ABSENCE
MAKES THE ISLAND QUIET XXXI A PROMISE XXXII
VENGEANCE XXXIII KEEKIE JOE, SCOUT XXXIV THE STORY
CLOSES AND SCHOOL OPENS

ILLUSTRATIONS
Pee-wee rowed his customers to Alligator Island.
Keekie Joe interview Pee-wee.
The boys hold the island in spite of old Trimmer's protest.
Pee-wee becomes a sandwich man.

PEE-WEE HARRIS ADRIFT
CHAPTER I
ALONE
When Pee-wee Harris returned from Temple Camp in the fall, he found
himself a scout without a patrol. He had indulged in a colossal
speculation and lost out.
Forsaking the Raving Ravens, he had set forth to mobilize all the small,
unattached boys at camp into the Pollywog Patrol, but the Pollywog
Patrol had proved about as substantial as the shifting sand.

Like the beloved Black Lake it had both an inlet and an outlet. As fast
as one boy entered it another had to go home, so that conducting the
Pollywog Patrol was like pouring water into a leaky pail. Pee-wee, with
all his flaunted efficiency, could not be at both ends of this patrol at the
same time.
As soon as some miniature scout from New York had been duly
initiated, some previously initiated scout from Chicago found that his
time was up, and Pee-wee's time was chiefly occupied in rushing
frantically about trying to keep pace with this epidemic of resignations.
At last the epidemic reached an acute stage and the Pollywog Patrol,
after a glorious career of nine days, was struck a mortal blow, never to
be heard of again except in the pages of history. Its three remaining
members were summoned to their several homes simultaneously; one
new scout was hastily secured but on learning that he could not be
patrol leader he tendered his resignation and was soon called home to
attend his sister's wedding. Scout Harris faced a cruel world alone.
Meanwhile, Billy Simpson had been called to Temple Camp from
Bridgeboro to fill (if anyone could fill) the enormous space left vacant
in the Raven Patrol by the withdrawal of its enterprising genius.
"Never mind," said Mr. Ellsworth, the troop's scoutmaster, "there are
plenty of fish in the sea--to say nothing of Pollywogs. Bridgeboro is
full of permanent material. You have all this winter to round up a new
patrol."
"Only don't round up any snow men because they melt," said Roy
Blakeley, leader of the Silver Foxes; "and don't bother with shadows
because you can't depend on them. And when you get a scout put a
paper weight on him so he won't blow away."
"If you'll give me some of the biscuits you make, I'll use them for
weights," Pee-wee shouted.
"You mean you'll eat them," Roy said. "What are you going to name
the new patrol? Why don't you name it the Canned Salmon? Then they

can't get away from you."
"Sure, you can have a can-opener for your emblem," said Dorry
Benton.
"Maybe we'll call ourselves the Airedales