The Big Read: Don't look away

Once, when I was a kid I joined a search party. I was at cub scouts on Friday evening with Tommy Renyard and Kevin Scrooby when the scoutmaster asked us to help search the bush next morning near the old army base. After I'd made sure we'd be allowed to wear civvies, I signed up. You could get away with being a cub scout as long as you never actually wore your cub scout uniform in front of any kids who weren't cub scouts.