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At the scout meeting the next



       week, as we planned for the


       following month, the boys grinned as



       Gordy made the announcement.


               “We have decided we are going to



       work on the mountain climbing merit


       badge.”



               “It’s getting awful late in the fall,


       don’t you think?” I protested.



               “You said you would do any


       scout thing we wanted to do,” Mort



       said.



               “But I also said it had to be safe,”


       I complained.



               My assistant scoutmaster could


       see what was going on, and he just



       grinned.  He, too, had seen me on the
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