Part 4 (2/2)
”I guess I can get ten on that, all right,” re knots: Reef, sheet-bend, clove-hitch, bow line, middleman's, fisherman's, sheepshank,” finished Rand
”We can pass on that all right,” coin to feel as if I would like a bite--one of the other kind Don't you think we have fish enough?”
”Do you think so?” asked Don gravely ”Better look them over and be sure The rest of us h to go around,” replied Pepper, with a laugh ”I am not so bad as that”
”Well, if you are sure there are enough,” said Rand, ”weI say, pull up the anchor, Jack, and you needn't go after it, you know”
”Oh, just as you say,” replied Jack, hauling up the kedge
CHAPTER V
OUT OF THE RIVER
”Here comes the Dart,” announced Jack, as a hoarse whistle sounded down the river The anchor had, by this time, been lifted into the boat and they had started to roard the shore ”She has a whistle like an ocean liner”
”You want to look out for the swell,” warned Pepper, ”she kicks up a bigger swell than any other boat on the river”
”As big as the Hudson or Fulton?” asked Donald ”Why, they are half a dozen tihth their size,” replied Jack, ”but she has got more power, for her size, than any of them She has three smokestacks like the Fulton Just see her co up the river at full speed, the water curling away fro her through the water with the speed of an express train
”Gee!” cried Pepper, ”look at her come Say, she'dbackward if he was here
She is sure some boat”
”Who owns her?” asked Donald
”She belongs to Mr Whilden,” replied Jack ”He is president of the Dart Motor-cycle Company, you know”
”Gee!” cried Pepper, ”I wish he was ”
”What for, Pepper?” queried Rand ”Want hi?”
”That wouldn't be bad,” affirht take a fancy to reat if we all had motor-cycles!”
”In my opinion,” interjected Donald, ”'tis just a waste of tiet”
”Oh, there is no harht just as ish for a big thing as a little one”
”Just look at the wave following her,” interrupted Jack ”It her than the level of the river We will have to keep head on if we don't want to be swamped”
”See that canoe over there,” broke in Pepper, and pointing to another boat ”They will be in trouble pretty soon if they don't watch out”