The Hilltop Boys on the River

river, Jack, you will have to get a mot

a bit of

ou wan

nd I am going

ost money, Jack. W

ost, Dick. You spend

and you have a gilt-e

to use as well

a serviceabl

cost me anything like what your boat cos

he looking you want, but I'd like

going to get one myself, and it will not cost me much either, and will give me all the service

r-boat, are you, Jack Sheldon?" asked

he cat out of the bag, but now that she is out you need not scare her all over the neighb

k, how are yo

n her tail yet, and you won't until I get ready. I have told you more now than I mea

cademy situated in the highlands of the Hudson on top of a hill about five miles b

ough he had been obliged to work to pay for his schooling at

or his education, and to provide his widowed mother with many extra comforts in a

xperience, and he was now averse to spending more than was n

to spend than was really good for him, buy him a motor-boat, nor would he spend too

he summer, not in the Academy, but in a camp on the river where the boys would have plenty of open air, exercise, relaxation,

ack remained at the Academy instead of going home, some distance away in anot

ver, the nearest large town to the Academy and was well known in the

one kind or another, but mostly motors, Jack had already looked about him, an

est to the Academy, and called in at the office of the News where he found the editor, Mr. Brooke, pecking away at a t

other, although he had been shown by Jack, who was a rapid writer on a machine,

n?" said Brooke, looki

tle gasolene engine that you used to ru

I guess. It isn't good

do you wan

ink you can do anything with i

it for nothing. I'

oo little to run any but the small presse

o make it do good work. I wa

come to it. You have a mechanical bent, I know, and I gues

all right. Will you deliver it to a man that I send after it? I'll take it down to t

order, and I'll le

all for the present

n their wharf he looked around, saw an old rowboat lying on the gro

at lying on the wharf? I'd like

eldon," said the foreman. "Yo

want to

r, but you'll be a dol

was worth, and that a little money expended on it wo

as long as

paint and brushes and some narrow boards used for flooring,

s, and by the purchase of a few necessary articles, and by working himself he managed in t

and then proceeded to deck it over forward, having already remedied any defects that it had, a

boat was ready and was put in the water wit

ly satisfied with the result, having fitted up a boat for less than half wha

the foreman that he intended to leave it the

eldon," said the foreman. "I saw you going up the riv

smiling. "I was just warming her up a bit

e a made-over affair now that she was painted and decked over, had her lights and all her appurt

and go into camp on the river Percival asked J

uty, cost me three hundred dol

kes good speed. I'll have her down to-morrow when we go to camp. She is in a machi

ere did you buy it? You've been very quiet

fixed it up myself from one thing or another, but I

ll the work on

new for me to wear overalls and a jumper,

ake a boy. I believe you'd look all right in anything. But I'

so if you will get out your runabout we'll g

replied Percival ea