The Golden Boys and Their New Electric Cell
lar, please d
en awakened by the noise and that they were also in a state of terror. Taking advantage of their panic, Bob quickly found his way to the hall an
behind a convenient bush, and he could not resist the temptation to sing out, "Ne
urglary, Bob Golden," came in
uess you'll have a fine time explaining how
time in getting it into the water. Jumping in he bent to the paddle with all his strength and in about a half
never come," said Ja
out of the canoe, and then of cour
e had finished, "Sure and you'
ow," he continued, "it's about 2 o'clock and we must get some sleep for I wa
you wake," proposed Mike, "in case
rve to try to get into the house, but they might try to break into the boathouse to injure
asleep when they heard Mike pounding on the door
It took but a short time to get the Sprite into the
rly, "for the first t
e boys, for if anything was wrong, th
ke, and then jump
nd a second later the Sprite was floating about twenty feet from the shore. Bob at once turned
both Jack and Mi
ading her down the lake. "Now to see
cut through the water, till Jack declared that they were going fully as fast as
out half. But don't it seem
k, "but push her over and le
ugh the water till it seemed to the
eaking for the first time, "but ye'll g
fteen miles an hour if we're going an inch, and the b
esults and confident that they would be able to keep the coveted blue ribbon. As Jack expressed it, "The
er go back now and get s
ed Jack, "I'm hungry enoug
her places of amusement. Past the lake, about a quarter of a mile distant, ran a trolley line, about ten mi
as marked out by buoys and ran down the lake on the east side, up on the west side nea
ve, for the great race was scheduled to start at 3.00, and promp
der engine; the Chum, twenty feet long with fifteen horsepower, and the Rocket, eighteen feet long, equipped with an engine
the shore, then came the Winner, Eagl
hey took their places, but no words passed between them till just before the start,
bet," re
I'll do, I'll make it a hundred dollars or any amo
, and at that moment the starter's
sir," was t
evolver. Instantly nine fly wheels were turned over, but Bob sitt