CHAPTER XXV.
BEDLAM That Pee-wee Harris, the only original boy scout, positively guaranteed, should be pronounced _not_ a scout! Why that was like saying that water was not wet or (to use a more fitting comparison) that mince pie was not good.
To say that Pee-wee Harris was in the scouts would not be saying enough.
Rather should it be said that the scouts were all in Pee-wee Harris.

The Scout movement had not swallowed _him_, he had swallowed it, the same as he swallowed everything else.

He had swallowed it whole.

He was the boy scout just as much as Uncle Sam is the United States, except that he was much greater and more terrible than Uncle Sam.

Oh, much.