[Roy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookRoy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp CHAPTER III 14/14
I bet any girl would say he looked fine, that's one thing sure. Just before he climbed over the railing he put his hand in his pocket and took out some change and he was in such a hurry that he dropped some of it and it went all over the deck.
I started to pick it up for him, but he only said, "Never mind, let it go, you can have all you find, and here's a quarter to get a couple of sodas." I said, "We don't take anything for a service, scouts don't." "Well, you can have a soda on me, can't you ?" he said, trying to make me take the quarter. "If you want me to be loyal to you, I have to be loyal if I make a promise, don't I ?" I said. He said, "What promise ?" And I said, "I can't take anything for a service." Then he hit me a rap on the shoulder and laughed and he punched me in the chest, not hard, only kind of as if to show me that he liked me. Then he said, "Bully for you, kiddo, you're one little trump." Then, all of a sudden he was gone. Sometimes you can't tell just why you like a fellow, but, anyway, I liked him just the same..
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