The Radio Boys at Ocean Point

e a little before eight, for the concert begins at eight o'clock sharp, and there aren't many things in it that we want to miss. It's t

going to be the cat's

with mock severity. "When are you going

s,'" muttered Joe. "That would have been a little more digni

emarked Herb. "But if they were 'l

graceless Jimmy, nowise abashed. "But you fellows had better

thes that he had been promising himself all through that hot afternoon. A brisk rubdown with a rough towel did wonders, and by the time his mother returned h

ated the events of the afternoon. Mingled with their gratitude at his and Joe's escape f

Layton. "There's hardly a week goes by without hearing something mean or rowdyish with

o help when he saw that the boys were in danger of being crippled or killed. He and his cronies could have got the ladder up in time, for they knew of the dang

b. "But, after all, Mother, here I am safe

heduled for the concert to begin. In addition to the pleasure they anticipated from the unusually fine program, th

d by a master of the instrument. It represented a dance of the fairies and called for such rapid transitions up and down the scale as to form a veritable cascade of rippling notes, following each other with almost incon

d when in a glorious burst of what might have been angel music the s

can call music!

what he's about,"

e certainly made a ten strike, Bob, when we rigged up

n't grudge a minute of the time you spent this after

nd came to their ears and put from them the thought of anything else. It was a medley that the band played, composed of well-known airs ranging from "Hai

us grand opera selections, the plaintive melodies of Hawaiian guitars, and some jazz, and when at last the

ked Bob, as he relaxed into his

t we can have something like it almost any night we c

in the morning, to say nothing of the ten dollars apiece or thereabouts that we'd have to pay for train fare and tickets for the concert. For us four that would mean about forty dollars. Now we haven't paid forty cents, not even one cent, we haven't had to dress, we'v

o. And every one has as good a seat as any one else. Think where that concert's been heard to-night. People out as far as Chicago and Detroit have heard it. They've listened to it on board of ships out at sea. In lonely farmhouses people have enjoyed it. Men sitting around campfires up in the Adirondacks have h

"But talking about a lot of people hearing it makes me

that we got the old folks and sick folks together and gave them a concer

on again. But what I have in mind are our own folks and our friends. Our fathers and mothers haven't

ieces," objected Jimmy. "I suppose o

hinks that we ought to have a loud-speaker-a horn that would fil

onceded. "In other words, instead of having a c