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“Was there ever such great luck, fellows?” “Whew! for one, I feel like giving a vote of thanks to the striking masons, who loafed pretty much all summer, and held the repair work on the Bloomsbury Hi…
“Ain’t you going to read it out, Andy?” asked Elephant, anxiously. “Wait till he gets through, can’t you?” asked Larry, although he was fairly trembling with eagerness to hear what the sending of tha…
Andy looked somewhat serious when Larry said this; but Frank on his part only laughed. “Well, what does it matter?” he remarked. “The thing will be town talk in a little while, and those fellows woul…
“H’st! flash that light a little!” These low words were plainly heard by the two concealed boys. They came immediately after there had been some sort of head-on collision between a couple of the prow…
“We’re almost there, Frank!” “Yes, the next station is Witherspoon, the brakesman said. Got all your traps ready, Andy?” “Oh! I’ve had them gathered up this half hour and more. Whee! ain’t it hot dow…
The Bird Boys would not soon forget that invigorating ride. On all sides they saw a thousand things that excited their wonder; and which they did not hesitate to ask about. And Uncle Jethro was only …
“Oh! it’s our hangar on fire!” gasped Andy. “Quick, get into something then, and out we go!” cried Frank, always the prompt one to act in an emergency. Andy hardly knew how he ever did manage to drag…
Such a busy day as they put in. It was hard for the foreman to influence the cow-punchers to look after their customary avocations, for they wanted to be hanging around that hangar all the time, watc…
“What’s that you say, Uncle Jethro?” exclaimed Andy, his face wreathed in an expression of sheer astonishment; for it gave him a tremendous shock to hear that nightmare of a name, Percy, mentioned aw…
The days began to just glide away, and every one saw Frank and Andy finding new sources of keen enjoyment. They seldom lost a day for a while but that they went up for a short time, at least, in the …
