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"That's the only way to get any fun out of a bee-line hike," I said. "Either do it right or not at all."
After we were all rested and had eaten all our potatoes we trampled the fire out and went up to the stateroad about a quarter of a mile away to wait for the jitney. I was good and tired, I know that.
Warde said, "I've been sitting on the porch all summer reading adventures, but this beats them all. And the best part is it was all real."
"Believe me," I told him, "a real agate is an imitation compared to us."
"I'm glad I'm in the scouts," he said.
"The worst is yet to come," I told him.
He said, "I'm game."
"You bet you are!" all the fellows shouted.
We all looked back and said, "Good night, old tree, see you later." It seemed as if that big tree had been with us all day and we had come to be friends, sort of. Maybe it saw everything from up there and was laughing to itself at all the crazy things we did, hey?
As we went along toward the stateroad Dorry said, "Let's take a hike straight north to-morrow."
"Sure, for the North Pole," Hunt said.
"You can count me out," I told them. "I'm going over to Little Valley to-morrow to play tennis if anybody should ask you."
Right away that crazy kid started jumping up and down, shouting, "What I know about you! What I know about you!"
I should worry about that bunch. Believe me, I was glad to think of getting rid of them for a day.
So long, I'll see you later.
THE END
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Table of Contents: The title of Chapter XI has been corrected to "EATS" {original had BATS}
Page 35: Good night! {superfluous period removed} I could have strangled that kid
Page 144: we'll let the whole World know that you're a hero, I mean a shero." {original omitted final quotation mark}
Page 180: "Do you know who you remind me of?" {original had off}
The following words have different hyphenation in the book than they do in the advertisements in the back matter:
camp-fire/campfire
to-day/today
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