And believe me, we had some trip, and that's mostly what I'm going to tell you all about.

Talk about fun! On Saturday morning all of the troop came down to the house-boat ready for the trip, and oh, you ought to have seen Skinny McCord.

He's a little fellow that lives down in the poor part of town, and he was a new member.

His mother is poor and she goes out washing, and Skinny was sick and his clothes were all in rags, and even he didn't have any shoes and stockings.

But, anyway, he did me a good turn and so Westy Martin and I got him into the troop, and we presented him to the Elk Patrol, because they had a vacant place on account of Tom Slade being away in France.