The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys, credited to Richard Harding Davis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys, by Richard Harding Davis. Read by David Wales. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys
• Author credits: Richard Harding Davis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 4:57:06

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• fiction
• Boy Scout
• newspaper reporting
• spy
• dogs
• Cuba

Track guide

1. 00 Publisher's Note — 1:56
2. 01 The Boy Scout — 39:09
3. 02 The Boy Who Cried Wolf — 40:53
4. 03 Gallegher, A Newspaper Story, Part 1 — 35:16
5. 04 Gallegher, A Newspaper Story, Part 2 — 38:45
6. 05 Blood Will Tell, Part 1 — 28:16
7. 06 Blood Will Tell, Part 2 — 26:46
8. 07 The Bar Sinister, Part 1 — 47:49
9. 08 The Bar Sinister, Part 2 — 38:20

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