File:Tom Slade - Boy Scout of the moving pictures (1915) (14753149095).jpg

English: Still from the American film The Adventures of a Boy Scout (1915), facing page 194 of the novel. Caption: Mrs. Temple was too weak to walk and the boys improvised a litter for her.

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Title: Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese, 1876-1950
Subjects: Boy Scouts
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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alf-pleading question, had gone the way of most rubber balls, and the memory of the episode would have gone the way of all such memories in the hoodlum mind, except that something had happened to Tom Slade since then. He was familiar now with Paragraph I, Scout Law, and was presently to show that he had pondered on other paragraphs of that law as well. Outside the pantry window was a nail keg and on this Tom sat down. It was in a jog formed by an angle in the back of the house, and the rewas not much danger of being seen from any of the rear ground floor windows, for these were all of heavy cathedral glass. The ground beneath them was littered with nails and shavings; a scrap or two of colored glass and some little bars of lead lay strewn about where the men had been working. Presently he heard voices and guessed that his companions were leaving. Then he heard the honk of an auto horn and caught a fleeting glimpse of a gray car rolling up the private way toward the porte-cochere. He heard other voices,
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THE NET? TOP.KPUBLIC ASTOIi, LENCX ANDTILDfiN FOUNDATIONS BURGLARS 99 the excited greetings of Mrs. Temple and Mary,and the sonorous and authoritative tones of JohnTemple. For a moment he forgot what he had come outhere for, as he realized that it would be difficultto leave without being seen. His hatred of JohnTemple had modified somewhat since he had be-come a scout, and had now given place to a feel-ing of awe for the man who could own a placeof such magnificence as Five Oaks. Never beforehad Tom been in such a house. He had sup-posed that Roys beautiful home was about themost luxurious abode imaginable. He realizednow that he was stranded in this despotic kingdomwith No Trespassing signs all about glaring athim like sentinels. Tom had acquired many of the scout virtuesand his progress in the arts (save in one or twowhich he could not master) had been exceptional.But he had still to acquire that self-confidence andself-possession which are the invariable result ofgood breeding. He

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