Pee-wee Harris, F.O.B. Bridgeboro
Pee-wee Harris, F.O.B. Bridgeboro
By Percy Keese Fitzhugh
2 Nov, 2020
Brief Extract: It was often observed by Roy Blakeley that whenever Pee-wee opened his mouth he put his foot in it. Unquestionably he put something in it on a very large percentage of the occasions when it was open, and there is no denying that it was
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Brief Extract: It was often observed by Roy Blakeley that whenever Pee-wee opened his mouth he put his foot in it. Unquestionably he put something in it on a very large percentage of the occasions when it was open, and there is no denying that it was open a great deal of the time; probably a hundred and twenty percent of the time.
There was probably nothing about Pee-wee which he opened as often as his mouth unless it was his scout handbook. And on one occasion when he opened his scout handbook, he put his foot in it with a vengeance. And thereby hangs a tale. There can be no doubt that Pee-wee knew all about scouting—oh everything. But the trouble was that he did not know all about scouts. And this was his undoing. Less