CHAPTER XVIII.
SCOUT LAW NUMBER THREE Now, I can tell you just exactly what Mr.Ellsworth said, because I remembered it and I wrote it down right afterwards.

First I was afraid Westy would say something and I didn't want him to, because--well, you'll see.

So now I'll copy what Mr.Ellsworth said.

Oh, jiminy, you could hear a pin drop, everyone was so quiet.

He said, "Wesleigh (that's Westy, you know), I have been asked by your own patrol to give you this public reproof, and I speak for the whole troop as well, when I remind you that your action today in absenting yourself and thereby avoiding your share of the work we had undertaken to do, was unscoutlike and unworthy of you, and unworthy of the patrol whose fine traditions you were bound to guard and support.