The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island

he distance between them and the distance to be covered by the s

is clothes, wide bottomed trousers and full shirt, and

t accustomed to swimming very far out of his depth, J

swimming straight on with a long, even stroke, wh

re anxiety than good judgment, shou

or the shar

his head and cast a frightened look behind him, seeing

k, swim straight ahead!" cried J

up under the shark before he could

an to rise, seeing the white bell

, he plunged the blade into the creature's vitals, drawing it downward and toward him, and tu

ith his little remaining strength, not again looking back,

to be eaten by others of his kind, Jesse W. su

ent, however, and c

be there. You mustn't give out yet, becaus

reached him, but seemed about to go

n't have to swim. I'll tow you a

ed the younger boy, as he obey

straight ahead. I don't know that there's anything there anyhow, but it

d the other. "You don't want me to

if any come they will be too busy taking bites out of the other to b

all right, Jack?" asked Jesse W. "

," and the boy swam with a good, steady stroke toward the approaching yacht, keeping a looko

s for more of the rapacious creatures, and at length discovered two making for him in different di

the vessel," he thought, "but the other one is coming on

d a gun from the captain, aimed at the creature and fired, doing no great damage, bu

e case with this one, who, in his sudden change of course, got away from his pilots, an

, splashing and kicking, and making a great disturbance to fright

y bore down toward him, slackening speed a bi

as it settled over his head, a

haul us both up together. You are

on board the yacht, Dick, Harry, Arthur, Billy Manners

mp out of water as they reached the deck, the gangway having been opened, and ban

d, and as the shark gave his jump he aimed a swi

one good crack at yo' an' Ah rip yo' side open. Don' yo' perambulat

hem in the most appropriate manner, so that the boys were always

and young Smith as they came on deck,

ed Harry, and fifty boys gave h

n, "but then, he always did have nerve, Jack did. If

t was close to him all the time. You fellows are all the time crac

mphasis on the pronoun, "but decent fellows can s

t," growled Herring. "If I'd s

you say that Jack pushed the boy overboard so as to get the name of rescuing him. You know that this is a lie, because Jack was on the bridge at that time,

s much stronger and better built than himself, and he, therefore

k because Jack is smarter, and a general favorite. I wish he had stayed on shore,

ry, uninhabited island, and left there

Percival. "You have been reading the lives of the p

Jack and young Jesse W., looking as fine as fiddles, and n

and gave both boys the heartiest cheers, both