[Roy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookRoy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp CHAPTER XX 5/10
What do you suppose _he_ cares about money--a fellow that can do things like that? It's these jelly-fish that go camping with a whole savings bank in their pockets and no shovel to dig a drain ditch with--that's the kind that think about money! You make me sick.
Turn your pockets inside out, Alf, and let them see what you've got--go ahead!" All the while Mr.Ellsworth kept saying, "Shh, shh, Roy," but what did I care? Even he couldn't stop me. "What's _he_ got to do with it, anyway ?" Connie said to Mr.Ellsworth, "I don't see as it's any of _his_ business." "Well," I said, "I'll _make_ it my business.
You've got the kid so nervous and scared, that he can't even find his pockets, he--" "Just a moment, Roy," Mr.Ellsworth said.
"You mustn't forget yourself. You have done our friends across the lake an injustice." "When I get through doing Skinny _justice_, it will be time enough to think of _them_," I said.
Oh, boy, I was mad. Mr.Ellsworth said, "We have no wish to search Alfred, Roy.
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