The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was ¿youth incarnate,¿ and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are certain of his stories that go with especial directness to a boy¿s heart and sympathies and make for him quite unforgettable literature. A few of these were made some years ago into a volume, ¿Stories for Boys,¿ and found a large and enthusiastic special public in addition to Davis¿s general readers; and the present collection from stories more recently published is issued with the same motive. This book takes its title from ¿The Boy Scout,¿ the first of its tales; and it includes ¿The Boy Who Cried Wolf,¿ ¿Blood Will Tell,¿ the immortal ¿Gallegher,¿ and ¿The Bar Sinister,¿ Davis¿s famous dog story. It is a fresh volume added to what Augustus Thomas calls ¿safe stuff to give to a young fellow who likes to take off his hat and dilate his nostrils and feel the wind in his face.¿ (Summary by Publisher's Note in book)