TOM SLADE ON OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN Tom stood up occasionally and chatted with the other two. TOM SLADE ON OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of THE TOM SLADE BOOKS THE ROY BLAKELEY BOOKS THE PEE-WEE HARRIS BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY Published with the approval of THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA PUBLISHERS—NEW YORK Made in the United States of America Copyright, 1923, by CONTENTS TOM SLADE ON OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN CHAPTER I If so it chance that you live in the city of New York and should, let us say, stop for a cooling drink of water in the interval of a ball game, pause for a few moments and consider this strange story of old Caleb Dyker and perhaps the water will not taste quite so good to you. Old Caleb Dyker had never seen the great city of New York; he had never in all his life been away from the little village of West Hurley until he was put out, thrown out, or rather until his little village was taken away from him by the