Excerpt from The Tenderfoot Scene: Clearing in Santa Crus Mountains suitable for camp site. Costumes: Boy Scout Uniforms. (Sounds of chopping, talking, laughing, off stage, singing. Jim Fresh enters in ordinary boy's costume.) Jim. (Peering off into distance) Boy Scouts! Good! (Goes forward, then draws back) That Mastadon Patrol! (Frowns) Making a camp, I'll bet a hat! Shall I tell uncle to drive them off? It would serve them right! I was too small for their patrol, was I? I'll lick the whole bunch! (Pause) No, I won't! (Slaps leg) I have a better scheme than that! A girl could raise hob! That patrol leader has Feminitus now! I'll innoculate the rest! Oh, baby! What a lark! (Sounds off stage grow louder) I must get out of this! (Exit) (Enter Jack Pierce, patrol leader, followed by Caruso, Peachy and Willie, all dragging logs.) Jack. (Pausing) Here's the place we chose. It's clear of underbrush, handy to the creek, and shady. What do you fellows think of it ? Caruso. Just the ticket. We can go to sleep listening to the murmur of the brook and the cooing of the wood-ticks! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.