Bobby Blake on a Plantation; Or, Lost in the Great Swamp

ent had forgotten all about lunch, suddenly remembered that they had been overlooking what w

remorseful that he had

"Lunch time has been over for more than half a

to it," jibed Skeets. "That's one plac

to put his watch back in his pocket. But in his haste it d

crowded around Pee Wee as he looked ruefully

stop?" a

round," put in Billy. "What did you exp

glare that expressed his op

nd then words failed him and he

, the graceless

know how those things come to me but they do-just

illy, who dodged so adroitly that the blow passed over his head and caught

ng the injured spot with his hand. "Haven't I had hard lu

hed Fred. "Sorry, old boy, but that stomach

er up, Pee Wee. What if another Ingersoll did bite the dust?

ed watch into his pocket, successfully this time, he hurried to the dining hall, where the sa

g events they had witnessed, and Bobby and the rest of his crew had al

obby?" queried Howell Purdy, his voice a li

pose I will to-morrow though. The seco

g out Belden," remarked Shiner. "You fellows were simply lifting that boat

ouldn't swim will never come nearer to death than he was to-da

oo when he was pulled o

t he got a wetting just the same and had to sit in his wet clot

as they make them," commented Skeets, "a

boats hadn't been put away in canvas. If it had been, we could never have got it ou

y's first thought was of Lee. He saw Mr. Carrier hurrying through the hall and

be better for you boys not to see him for a while. But the other boys are getting along all right, and they just told me that they would like to see you and the other memb

. Carrier smiled and went on. Bobby hunted up Sparrow and Fred, and the three we

ish an abundant meal that had been brought up to them. Apart from their rumpled hair, they bore no si

rrounded them, shaking hands and offering fervent thanks for the

ok at them. "I suppose I ought to have known that before, but I w

we're Belden boys, all right, and live ones too, thanks to you. If it hadn't been for you fellows, all four of us would have been at the bottom of the

after having introduced Sparrow and Fred in turn. "They

"and we didn't think when we were trying to keep you away fr

Bobby, as the party seated themsel

e water in the bottom of the boat when we started, but thought that might be due to the rain we had a few days ago. It was only when we had got out beyond the middle of the lake that we noticed that the boat was leaking badly. We tried to stuff the leak with, our handkerchiefs, but in jabbing them in with an oar, we pushed too hard and widened the crack so that we could do nothing with it, and the water began to come in faster than we

through the pain of drowning, for the last thing I remember was that my lungs seemed

ly as he gazed into the f