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The Boy Scout novels
Some months back, fed up with what I'd been finding on the bookshelves, lately, I began re-reading some old SF that'd I'd first read as a teen, back in the 70's.
That lead me to Robert Heinlein, and that got me started on Heinlein's juveniles. Several of these involved Boy Scouts. And that got me looking at Percy Keese Fitzhugh's old Boy Scout novels - Tom Slade, Roy Blakely, Pee-wee Harris, et al. My grandmother had a copy of "Tom Slade, Boy Scout", and of "Pee-wee Harris, F.O.B. Bridgeboro", that I'd read as a kid. All-in-all, Fitzhugh wrote something like 70 of these, in five different series, over the space of 25 or 30 years. Only a few of them have been reprinted, and the originals were printed on cheap paper, and aren't in good shape for casual reading. But 28 of them were published prior to 1923, and are in the public domain. Nearly all of these are available as free ebooks, if you go looking. I'm currently reading "Roy Blakely's Silver Fox Patrol", 1920, Grosset & Dunlap. It's opening is just fun: Quote:
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05-24-2011, 03:11 PM | #2 |
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Very British, but "Just William" is sort of naughty boy, not scouts but outlaws, and dated, but great fun............
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