Anyway I laid an oar-lock on the bill so it wouldn't blow away.

I've got two nickel-plated oar-locks that my patrol gave me on troop birthday, and I keep them in my tent except when I go to camp.
Westy was telling Skinny how fine he looked and, oh, gee, Skinny was happy, you could see that.

Of course, he didn't look very good, I have to admit it, but he had a smile a mile long.
"You're all right," I told him, "all you have to do is to stand up straight and think about scouting and the oath and the laws, and then you'll look like one." Then he said, "I have to have one of those axes, don't I ?" "You should worry about an axe," I said! "You didn't see one in the picture did you ?" "Wasn't it because the boy in the picture was facing me, and you wear the axe in back, don't you ?" "Don't you worry," I told him, "I know that fellow in the picture and he hasn't got one on." "One of your scout fellows says you have to have one," he said, kind of timid.
"Good night!" I said to Westy, "Pee-wee's been at it." "He knows, too," Skinny said.
"You mean that little fellow ?" I said.

"Has he been talking to you ?" "Yes," he said.
"Forget it," I told him! "If that kid had his picture taken he'd stand with his back to the camera so as to show his belt-axe.

If he had the Gold Cross he'd pin it on the end of his nose so everybody'd see it.
The principal thing to wear is the scout smile, you take it from me.
When you see Mr.Ellsworth to-night you ask him about the belt-axe and go by what he says.