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Title: The Aeroplane Boys Flight
A Hydroplane Roundup
Author: John Luther Langworthy
Release Date: January 2, 2004 [EBook #10576]
Language: English
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THE AEROPLANE BOYS FLIGHT
Or A Hydroplane Roundup
By JOHN LUTHER LANGWORTHY
MADE IN U.S.A.
M.A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
1914
CONTENTS
Chapter
I--THE BOY FLIERS
II--ON GUARD
III--NOT CAUGHT NAPPING
IV--THE STARTLING NEWS
V--THE EXCITEMENT GROWS
VI--FIGURING IT ALL OUT
VII--THE AIR SCOUTS
VIII--JUST BELOW THE CLOUDS
IX--THE PILOT OF THE MERMAID
X--HEARD OVER THE WIRE
XI--COMPARING NOTES
XII--AT THE HOSKINS FARM
XIII--THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR
XIV--A CLUE
XV--WHEN CASPER CAME BACK
XVI--THROWING OFF THE MASK
XVII--SALLIE RIDES BAREBACK
XVIII--AN AEROPLANE CHASE
XIX--DROPPING A "BOMB!"
XX--OVER LAND AND SEA
XXI--OVER THE BOUNDARY LINE
XXII--THE HYDROPLANE RESCUE
XXIII--BROUGHT TO BOOK--CONCLUSION
THE AEROPLANE BOYS FLIGHT
Or A Hydroplane Roundup
CHAPTER I
THE BOY FLIERS
"It was my mistake, Frank!"
"How do you make that out, Andy?"
"Simply because I was using the little patent Bird monkey-wrench last in
our shop, and should have put it back in the toolbox belonging to the
aeroplane. The fact that it isn't here shows that I mislaid it. Give me
a bad mark, Frank."
"Well, I must say it's a queer stunt for you to forget anything, Andy
Bird. But with dark coming along, and home some miles away, it's plain
that we'll have to let the mending of that wing go till morning."
"But do you think, Frank, it's just safe to leave our pet hydroplane
over night in this field on the Quackenboss farm?"
"Why not, Andy? Sky as clear as a bell; little or no wind promised; and
then we can hire the farm hand, Felix Boggs, to keep an eye on it. Looks
as easy as falling off a log."
"And all because I didn't put that little wrenc
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