You don't get much adventure mowing people's lawns, but it's sure
money. The trouble with us is we've been speculating in adventure and now
we're going to walk back home. Take a lesson from our terrible example-and
don't read the newspapers."
Harry Donnelle said, "There's seventy-five per cent profit in adventures.
I'd go to South Africa if I thought there was a ten cent piece buried
there." That was just exactly like him.
"Anyway," I said, "I'd like to know why I shouldn't read the newspapers."
"Because they will lead you astray. They sent us off on a get-rich-quick
enterprise," Brent said.
Of course, I knew he was half joking, but that was always the funny way he
talked. He reached over and held a stick in the fire till the end of it was
all flaming, then he stuck it in the ground near his head and pulled a
clipping out of his pocket. He kept lying on his back all the time and he
looked so funny, I just had to laugh.
Then he said, "Well, now, this is what brought us up into these woolly
wilds", and he began to read the clipping. This is it, because he gave it
to me afterwards:
BOY SCOUTS ASKED TO SEARCH
FOR MISSING DOUGHBOY.
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