The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island

cean wave or anything like it, I

up pretty lively at times, but the froli

f I am not I don't know what you call it.

if you were sick, but I wonder i

about how to bring up children. They never ha

h more of this I sha

go with yo

t, now about two days out from New York, bound to the W

on, and their names were Billy Manners, Harry Dickson, and Arthur Warren, all b

ey were all afraid they would be, h

he Spanish Main, having been invited by the father of one of them, a man largely interested in the s

s, the negro coachman at the Academy, who was now serving in the capacity of cook and general

lly no reason why a lot of healthy boys should be seasick, and perhap

dge of geography and of many other things, which they could not get by merely studying books, Dr. Wise having practical ideas on these p

on the mountains by one of the Hilltop boys by the name of Jack Sheldon, a general favorite at the Aca

the chance of becoming seasick, they were joined by two oth

weather, isn't it? Fine breeze, just the thing to send

th a wry face, "but I can't say that I do.

any more used to it than you are. Perhaps you have been eating to

his walking, "but I know how I feel," and he made a dash for the cabin

came out of the cabin carrying a tray containing cups of

my, sah, but mebby yo' would like a bite or two

name, who was walking arm in arm with Jack. "I don't need anyth

t when he feels as I do," growled Harry. "Tak

Hilltop boys, as in the present instance, but he was used to both, and a

uld put in yo' stomach, dat is to say when yo' get good nourishment

y, hurrying away, while Jack and Dick sat down, and gazed out upon th

ng," said Jack. "The air is pleasant enough as it is. Down here in the

uccaneers used to roam," laughed Dick. "Perhaps we will dig u

ill now. If people would work instead of trying to find gold that was never buried, they would accomplish somet

r myself, having rich folks who always looked after me. Perhaps it

You are not idle nor vicious, and you know the value of money. You will do for yourself w

for yourself has made you a stronger, more

alf laughing, half seriously. "I am

u never

my, having a great many friends, and being looked up to by the greater par

ous and ambitious, and bade fair to catch up with his older companion and schoolmate before many months had passed, hav

in lighter clothing than before, wearing mostly white flannel or duck, canvas shoes and caps, and no waistcoats, s

ere farther down the Spanish main than they were at that time, the islands in the lower lat

ort under awnings spread aft near the cabin companion, and some being on the bridge watching the steersman or looking out to sea in search of sails or noting

all about them, ahead and astern, and on all sides, Jack greatly enjoying gazing out upon

full name and always insisted upon being called by it, for whom primarily this expedition had been gotten up, struttin

ing ready to say with the fellow in the poem th

monarch of all I survey.' You must have recited it more than once in your younger days. That is not altogethe

s any danger, Jack! Hadn

ly to the boy. But before he had hardly said the words there was a sudden startled cry

den there was a loud cry of "man overboard!" an

nother had thrown aside his coat and kicked of

e forward deck, and was going aft with two or

t on the water, just where the boy had gone

sprang to the rail and leaped overboard, ta

he is going to the rescue before any one has shout

to be always scowling. "Knocks the kid overboard, and then goes to his rescue to

Pete Herring," stormed Dick, who had heard the

not supposed that Percival had heard his uncalled for and utterly false assertion, and

to hold the yacht near to the place where the boys had gone down, being

happened out of the ordinary, and no one thought of being

ing for help while he swam, and then, not far behind, what had caused him to take the kn