Owen Clancy's Happy Trail; Or, The Motor Wizard in California

is only about twenty miles, and the steamer from San Pe

at ten-seventeen Hiram became seasick. There wasn't anything halfway about it, either, he was sick all through

the Avalon pier and the gangplank was run out, Hill galloped ashore, and sank down on the dock with

etter sailor than that,

thout getting separated from my last meal. Darn it! This is why I wanted to find my lost dad in San Diego–I could go there by land. Clancy, I'm goin' to

hem. A rattling good fish dinner put Hill in a pleasanter mood, so that h

business, but to their disappointment, Lopez was away on the other side of the island and would not be back until e

trying to get away,

e island without seeing the mar

rdens on shore to do

'll get seasick," obser

u could on land," averred the runner. "We jest go out a

just to talk about it," s

arm and tried to drag him off

"and I'll have to take a trip in one. If you don't want to g

et separated this trip, if I can help it. If you're

friend," the runner insisted. "If

ve to give up my fare," commented Hill. "I only hope I d

," the man laughed

longside of which a boat was moored. The boat was a flat-bottom a

r side of the box was covered with glass. Passengers on the seats could look into the box, through the glass

a boat to use in seein' the marine gardens. We can go places

r the glass-bottom boats, for Clancy and Hill w

the man who had brought the two

nded the end of the pier, Hiram hung to his seat with

eel squeamish,"

ed the motor wizard. "Look dow

ve a slow, steady gliding onward. Off Avalon there is no surf, the tides rise and

st off shore to Sugarloaf Rock and beyond. Not far from the towering Rock were two

to the men in the bathing suits. "Didn

y gettin' ashore. What were those d

down under the glass bottoms, looks up at you from below, makes faces, throws kisses at the girls, and I don't know what all. Likewise, they brings up abalone shells; you can

his seasickness takes holt o' me so, hard and quick. Maybe if I'd

ound himself gazing from one world into anot

of softly waving trees. Some of the trees bore fruit, and in and out among their branches

d was to float up to the glass bottom of this here boat and shake a finge

s and shells! You can, see them as clearly as th

kelp is where we get our iodine of commerce. It takes f

lp, down below and growin' same as we see. What do they, want to root it up for? Why don't th

's goin' over and comin' this way," he added, with sudden animation. "Watch close, now, and maybe you'll see him pick up an abal

harp, but they couldn't

for another boat afore he got here.

wing a bit, and filled

ht you don't want to miss the coach trip to the top o' the uplifts. It's ten miles up and two miles back, same road all the way," he chuckl

ist money. When one had got all he could of a guileless sight-seer, he passed him on to a bro

d Ike. "Here the di

the boat, saw a human form glide gracefully to a point directly underneath, tu

sed that pleasing performance. His face abruptly froze as with horror, and

ips. Hill gave a yell, sat up and bega

, and he helped walk off with your fifteen thousand, Clancy! What's he doin' in the

n his seat, bending low to a

going to do?"

at chap below, I'll bring him aboard, or ashore, or we'll both stay down in the kelp till the c

and went into the water with a splash. Clancy reached for him, bu

the glass bottom and staring; "for the lov