Download or read book Tom Slade Picks a Winner written by Percy Keese Fitzhugh and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Slade Picks a Winner by Percy Keese Fitzhugh is about Wilfred Cowell and his attempt to become a scout. Despite being of a timid nature, Wilfred is determined to join the boy scouts. Excerpt: "The boy lay in a large, thickly upholstered Morris chair in the living room. His mother had lowered the back of this chair so that he could recline upon it, and she kneeled beside him holding his hand in one of hers while she gently bathed his forehead with the other. She watched his face intently, now and again averting her gaze to observe a young girl, her daughter, who had lifted aside the curtain in the front door and was gazing expectantly out into the quiet street. "Is that he?" Mrs. Cowell asked anxiously. "No, it's a grocery car," the girl answered. Her mother sighed in impatience and despair. "Hadn't you better 'phone again?" she asked."