The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron

right, but I'm glad it's over,

inventor far enough to appreciate his eagerness to be at work. He knew what had brought Bud all the way up to this

at bore upon the subject fascinated the boy, and he dreamed of making the name of Morga

restling with this important question for years, because it was pretty generally understood that when this condition had been really attained, the sport of aviation would advance with great bounds

ly contained the said model. It was not of very large size, and the little engine which was to drive it really weighed as much as the rest of the thin

with eagerness to get started. He could not understand wh

t want any wandering wild animal like a 'coon or a fox to make way with the latter during their absence at the proving grounds. It was this same cautio

nt. The man who had originally started to make a farm away up here had diligently cut down trees for a space of several acres. He had al

" Hugh said to the inventor, after the three boys

t I've been doing all these months when some of the fellows were kidding me on being a regular old book worm and not wanting to come out and play even football with them. It w

w, because Bud was a member of the Wolf patrol and the leader had watched him

ndles. When Hugh saw the nature of the load he had been packing

engine would have given me a bad scare if I'd seen it beforehand. And I toted that all the way up here from the road, did I? Well, anyway

g to himself, seem

a touch of pain in the muscles of your back last night, Hugh. But really the

zen of the other, so I took the smaller one. I reckon I'll be re

answer just as well as the most elegant model. What Bud wanted to find out most of all was whether he had been working on the right principle. If that turned out to be

eing the leader, willingly assumed the air of a novice, though Bud knew very well that the oth

nostentatious way, often assisted him to overcome some difficulty that arose; so that Bud declared he did n

he air, it would continue to make revolutions for a certain time. He declared it would actually fly around the field slowly un

g to work. If it does half way decently in this clumsy model, it'll pay to install it on a real aeroplane and either go up myself or else have an air pilot do it for me. But say, let me tell you right now that I'

the public never hears about; only his brilliant successes become known. Suppose this scheme doesn't do all that you expect it to, why, perhaps you'll see where it falls short

as we Americans have it, 'if at firs

" said Bud firmly; "and now le

air without the necessity of leaving the ground. This wa

there was an immediate movement

n he saw the object of Bud's recent labors actually movin

g that promised to repay the other scout for his weeks of arduous labor p

properly to insure a circuit of the field; but as the ground was very rough in places, Bud had great difficulty in keeping from falling many times. This was partly on account of the fact that h

this way he managed to make the little flier take sudden lurches; but in every instance the model instantly resumed its upright position as soon as the pull

showing signs of being a success. It consisted of a small iron bar weighing an ounce or so, which was hung as a pendulum from an arm projecting from un

in any way, the movement of this pendulum would cause two little valves to open. This would make the compression from the engine force a piston back and forth, which communicated with the warping levers and automatically accomplished what had up to that

ake you famous as an inventor. Perhaps when you try it again to-morrow, after mending your planes, you'll discover a few ways in which

dous exertions and from the glow of satisfied ambition. "I am convinced that I haven't been was

, was feeling so pleased that he could have done the work of an ox himself. There is nothing like satisfaction to bring out

ing that he had suddenly thought of was bothering him. A minute later he burst into vie

there on the pile of blankets. Hugh, somebody's been in the shack whil