The Rover Boys in Camp; or, The Rivals of Pine Island

th good humor, and he was fairly bubbling over on the train which carried the boys to Ithaca, wh

declared. "Don't you remember that trip, and the fun we had wi

ll's the p

lee! Tr

l's the pl

old schoo

putting you off, the next t

academy boys own privileges that other passengers

t any of the other f

r lads got aboard and came down the aisle. One was tall and handsome, a

ck, leaping up and gras

meet you. Returning t

rom the Rover boys' old

of you just as we mee

" cried the round-faced lad, with a twinkle in his e

"Then you are going back, too?

cakes alretty, und dot makes mine face preak owid, put I ain't got no scarlet f

about being cast away on an isl

. If you tell the fellows they'll t

poud dot," broke in Hans. "You vos

d Tom, bursting out into a fit of laugh

ou needn't crow over

ry, I didn't think you'd begin

tched it ou

n there was a laugh in which all but Hans Mueller joined. The G

choke?" he demanded. "Of i

on a gangway and a step-lad

Roosters or vos you

right enough," answered Tom, wh

vos gigglin

and live on a big island with nobody but lions, buffaloe

lls?" que

wonder the 'cannonballs' hadn't eaten us up," and then c

, and buffaloes py dot

an y

ephants, panthers, cats, dogs, hippopotamuses

Und you vosn't eate

ned jibberjacker. He came into our house one night,

on't t

and had swallowed him as far as his waist, whe

Hans' eyes were

e ran and got Sam by the legs, a

m! Und vot did dot vot

s ten feet on

u said, Tom?" interr

u know that a real jib

on't oxactly rem

es, the real jibberjacker has ten feet, although a branch of

anked his ten feets

ween us. Sam was swallowed as far as the waist, and couldn't d

y time, Hans," answered Sam, who felt as i

ve a tug, and all of a sudden Sam came out. The shock was so great it threw Dick and me clear acro

vos

ome rocks below. All of his ten legs were broken, and of course he couldn't get away, so we went down, got a long cross-cut saw,

the others, and a peal of laughter rang through the car. At this Han

said. "Dot vos von of dem fi

jibberjacker

fool me some more. I vos too schmart for dot alretty.

eeth we'll call it off," said Dick, and here

Hall on account of the scarlet fever scare," said Larry. "

ely new lot of officers," said Sam. "We have been away

rs as soon as all the boys were back," said Larry. "Som

nt of Company A," put in Dick. "Reckon I'll have to

e, Dick," said Larry. "Hans, yo

to vote for me, too,"

t to be water-carrier

der rear rank alretty. Von of der fel

t you high private of the rear r