The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat

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ed as if it had been stirred by some invisible furnace. The graceful lines of the boat, its manifest power and spee

four boys on board the motor-boat. Younger brothers and sisters, two uncles, several aunts, not to mention the various fathers and mothe

han a month. The trip was one to which the Go Ahead boy

ted something of the feeling in his heart. And indeed there was a substantial basis for Fred's pride. Among the many boats on the river the Black Growler moved as if she belonged in a class of her own. People on bo

venteen. His round body and rounder face were evidences that in time what Fred lacked in length he might provide in breadth. Among his companions he was a great favorite and frequently was called by o

was. He was six feet three inches in height, although his weight was not much more than that of the more di

nd his time in the hundred yards dash stood now as a school record. His fund of general information was so large that so

gnation his friends indirectly expressed their admiration for one who, even if he bore the name of the Father of his Co

ade a voyage to the West Indies where their experiences on a desert island have been already recorded.[1] Together they had investigated the mysteries connected with an old house near George's country home, a place shunned by the count

er of an island in the majestic river, had invited the boys to spend a month with him in his cottage. Incidentally he had explained that their visit would be at the time when the boat races occurred, which he had n

iven his consent for the boat to be entered, as well as for Fred to invite t

minds of the Go Ahead boys when the Black

all the time?" demanded John as the swift

up," replied Fred glanci

low up than blow

Fred. "The first thing you

the Go Ahead boys learn how to use the English language.

ndfather used to call the 'ra

e should happen to strike a rock or bump into another boat

that you know how to steer? If we were traveling on the

hat?" broke

ie and was constructed chiefly because DeWitt Clinton

to know how long the canal is and so I shall be able to tell whether you reeled off your figures, depending upon o

though I find some authorities give it as thr

e solemnly. "I suppose you know all

n't believe in starting off on a trip like ours with

ested John quickly. "I haven't bee

you. I looked them up for the benefit of my benighted companions. Now there's the Cape

ending to be discouraged by the attitude of his friend. "I suppose we'll have to have it," he ad

sternly at John, "is eight miles long, it is t

ssing? Did you ever see anything more beautiful than the river? Pretty soon we'll come to the Highlands and to West Point and I want to say to you right now, Soc, that I would rath

ind before we come back home,"

lish much in just a month,

dy to prepare to begin to star

He never is at a loss for a word. It doesn't make any d

poke up Fred. "I want you to notice that b

make out her name," he added as he looked through the fiel

iced a group of boys and girls near the rail, who apparently were as deeply i

George. "Start her up, Fred, and see i

ns had any suspicion of the many experiences they were to have with the pas

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