The Aeroplane Boys Flight / Or, A Hydroplane Roundup

y with you, Andy," the

job won't have to be done over again. You go, Frank. Perhaps Mr. Quackenboss would let you have a horse; or if you cared to, you give Percy a hail, and

hich had occurred not so very long before, and wh

his head in

Mr. Quackenboss can't let me have a horse to ride, why, the walking is good, a

ng except in a whirl. He's as bold as they make them, and the only wonder to me is that he hasn't met with a terrible accident before now. Bu

that of a flying machine man is the one where a cool head and quick judgment are the things most needed. And the fellow who takes

he farmer had finished his task, and was

rse from him, but Mr. Quack

e hanging on that peg back of the harness room door. And as for Andy, who's going to stay over with us, we'll find a chair for him at the supper table, and only hope

waving his hand to his chum and cousin, of whom he

h of us have promised our folks not to travel at night-time when it can be helped. Even if the moon is bright there's always a risk about landing, becau

. Mrs. Quackenboss proved to be a very warm-hearted woman, and any one who answered to the name of Bird could have the very best that the place afforded. There was

t, for when company comes the average farmer's wife never knows whe

to stay over-night with you, Mrs. Quackenboss," la

e anybody to get up from our

ll, for if I try to taste half I see here, I'll be f

rtune sent him one of the now famous Bird boys for company, he wanted to listen to some thrilling accounts of adventures that had come the way of the young and

ries. But the farmer could not help but notice how modest the boy was, giving most of the credit to his cousin Frank

hydroplane lay. They meant to take blankets along, and mak

t let up in his mischief-making ways for awhile at least, after all they had done for him up on Old Thundertop, Andy could not bring himself to trust the other further than he could see him. He believed that the nature of P

ot know what manner of a new flier the Bird boys had in hand now. He had r

ght to examine the hydroplane with the aluminum pontoons under its body for floating on the water; and perhap

d noted a clump of trees conveniently near, and already his mind was made up that he and Felix would camp there, to

and. Except when the circus came to town, or there was a Harvest Home day, poor Felix knew l

sing as simple language as he could find, because Felix was not at all up in professional terms, and w

heavy blankets so as to make as comfortable a

uld be scrutinized just as well as in the daytime; but Andy knew from experience how deceptive

it's all a humbug. There never was a brighter night than this, I reckon you'll agree with me, Felix; and yet look at that stump not a stone's throw

I throwed a stone at a whippoor-will as was perched on the roof a-keepin' us all awake nights, and would yuh believe me, she went right

r less about how Percy Carberry had hated and envied them in th

undertop, and his aeroplane was smashed there; so one of us had to carry Percy and Sandy home, bruised as they were. But I don't, because I know it'd take m

time of it, I guess, Andy. Be as good as any old circus to me, just to see how

wonderful things the Bird boys had seen, and taken part in. Perhaps ambition was beginning to awaken in the boy's soul, and he might not after this be so satisfied to

to say; "an' he was so took by the way you managed things that he wanted to get you to go in with a

n the way he made that corkscrew climb; and also on his volplane drop; said we had both of them down pretty fine; and he did hint at our having a chance to go in with his company; but of course we couldn't think

this same gent, he saw Frank dive right off his aeroplane like a bullfrog, and save little Tommy. That jest took him by storm, h

decided that the time had come for them

midnight or two in the morning," he said, as he settled himself more comfortably on his blanket, and pulled it up

e an hour or so; and you must promise to give me a ki

y, I'd never think of making a move, and you asleep. So just settle down, a

ince four the morning before. It was therefore a fight between weary muscle

for perhaps

catch the regular breathing of the stout farmhand,

es of the broken hydroplane, and especially in that quarter to

es, if he relaxed just for a breath, that was almost sure to be the time when something would happen. How often he had proved that when fishing, a

me pas

as now after eleven. He was beginning to believe that if there was anything doing that night, it must come about very so

up a little more eagerly, and continued to scan the line of fence, as