The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat

young people standing near the rail. It was plain that there was great admiration on each boat for the beauty and speed of the other. There were calls and cheers, and waving of handkerchiefs

rich!" said George enthusiastically. "I should like to s

r about two months of it you would want something els

t Josh Billings said that 'it's a good deal better not to know s

s boat suits me all right. You wait until you

ave to wait too lon

boat that tries to keep up with us. I have been on the St. Lawrence before and unless there is something a good deal better than I have ever seen there, we sha

y?" inqu

that there are mor

mply thinks this boat will outclass nine hundred and ninety-nine others th

n the cup yet," s

ke the joy out of life. I heard of an old man the other day who was so disgruntled that when he met a friend on the street who saluted him with a h

he didn't find an

is head and closed his eyes and groaned out, 'Yes, it's a fine day,

he did. I never knew any one who took such pride in her aches and pains as she did. One day when the doctor had been to see her she had told him all the pains she suffered and the poor old doctor had to sit t

was attracting attention from every boat she met. Following the channel they kept well out in the river, but the t

last. "Do they have these races

ast few years and they h

do you

ng contests, canoe races, divi

in any of them?

me over Fred's face as

id you

a silver cup on the end of it and the fellow

u get t

" replied F

low in all my acquaintance that I think co

art of a telegraph pole. It stuck out from the dock about fifteen f

re you allowed to

iv

ldn't go in

feet flew out from under me and I sat down on the rive

joy it?" la

t the people on the docks and along t

do next?" la

my feet and tried to wipe up

dn't th

en I slipped, I tried to throw my arms around it. But for some good reason I

e those things this s

oberly. "You wouldn't take much space and if you could once get a

, "you can rest easy that

ome to West Point

n hour," an

s think I should like to

one, my son,"

n't it

enters West Point has t

pass it?" demanded Geor

what it is,"

running tin tubes from the kitchen into the front room a

bout what a fellow has to do before he passes the West Point exam

w that we don't?

ave to be to enter West

y. "I suppose he has to be about eighteen, at

he was twenty-one

ars of age before he can take the preliminary examinations. But there's another qua

said John solemnly. "He

xample?" dem

in himself colossal, his willingness to co

s a good physical examination and that is all there is to it. Of course

ow does a fellow get a chance

for all the boys that want to enter and then select the one who passes the best examination.

some money for every cadet,

expenses. It is not only hard work but the boys don't get but one leave of absen

cations, don't th

. "From about the middle of June to the end of Augu

pass an examination in in

equations, plane geometry, descriptive geography, physical geog

John, who was well known to have troubles

Fred, pointing to a motor-boat about one hundred feet

t is trying to do,"

let them do

intend not to do," s

d, but it was also manifest as the boys glanced behind

ad Boys and the Mys