Roy Blakeley's Tangled Trail
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Roy Blakeley's Tangled Trail
                                            
                            By Percy Keese Fitzhugh
                            
                                5 Nov, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Hello, everybody, this is the first story I wrote in a long time, only I haven’t written it yet. I mean when it’s all written it will be the first one I wrote in a long time.
That’s because my fountain pen got broken on accoun
                                ... Read more
                                                Brief Extract: Hello, everybody, this is the first story I wrote in a long time, only I haven’t written it yet. I mean when it’s all written it will be the first one I wrote in a long time.
That’s because my fountain pen got broken on account of stirring coffee with it in camp. Pee-wee Harris said that needn’t make any difference because a scout is supposed to be able to write with a charred stick whittled to a point.
He says that’s the way pioneers wrote. He thinks the word pioneer comes from the word pie. He says that’s the way he writes. No wonder his stories are such black mysteries, that’s what my sister says. He says scouts are supposed to write on birch bark. But believe me, paper is good enough, I tried birch bark. But anyway I like birch beer. I’m crazy about root beer too, only it reminds me of cube root and that reminds me of arithmetic. Less