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