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Why, I'll bring the first release of it to Woodbridge myself and show it in your headquarters. How'll that suit you fellows?" And the enthusiastic replies of the scouts convinced the "movie" manager that he had hit the right idea. "Well, fellows, there's this much about it, if we are going to build a real sure enough motorboat this year we've got to get a hustle on us and earn some money.
'How'd ye like a sip iv Moran's good whiskey? he sez, eyin' the case iv milk the while. I confiss me mouth went wet at the naked thought iv it. 'But what's the use iv likin'? sez I, with me sack bulgin' with emptiness. 'Candles worth tin dollars the dozen, sez he, 'a dollar apiece. Will ye give six cans iv milk for a bottle iv the old stuff? 'How'll ye do it? sez I. 'Trust me, sez he.
There's nobody at the camp but Lon, an' he always sleeps after he gets through work. But how'll we get to Bear Cat?" "I'll bring the buckboard. Dad's away. I'll leave him a note. Meet you in half an hour on Twelve-Mile Hill," she added. It was so arranged. June ran back to the house, hitched the horses to the buckboard, and changed to her best dress.
But how was I to set about it? "Dick, here's a knife. How'll I get to it so as to free myself?" "Easy as pie," replied he, eagerly. "The sharp edge points down. You hitch yourself this way That's it -good!" What Dick called easy as pie was the hardest work I ever did.
"I'll send a chirp to all the crickets in this house and garden, and they'll send a chirp to all the crickets in the next house and garden, and so on, and so on, and so on, all through this country, and in a little while I'll be able to tell you if they're here or not." "How'll you ever get the message back?" asked Sweetclover.
"I'll allow you wages on the Thompson job' till you've earned enough to balance up with the outfit. After that it'll be fifty-fifty. How'll that be, Bud?" "Fair enough fair enough," Bud retorted with faint mimicry. "If I was all up in the air a few days ago, I seem to have lit on my feet, and that's good enough for me right now. We'll let 'er ride that way."
To make love to a girl that ain't had much experience to make love to her because she's got a load of money? I've seen some sort of dirt done in my life," says I, "but this is the lowest down I ever seen," says I. "And Bonnie Bell," says I she still had me around the neck, holding my arms down, and I didn't want to hurt her "how'll I tell the old man? You know I've got to come through with him.
Our only hope is for some tramp freighter that's trying to find a short cut through the reefs. Even if we sight a tramp, how'll we signal her?" "With a fire." "Aye, if one passes at night. We could stack up wood on the top of this hill. The island isn't charted. If a skipper saw a light, he might take a chance and send a boat. But how could we kindle a fire?"
"Don't think so. That's Limon Bay, isn't it? Where is Colon?" "Colon is where the railroad's going to begin. We land at Chagres." "Where is Chagres?" "How far across to the Pacific at Panama?" "About four days. Three by boat and one by mule, they say." "Anything to eat at Chagres? Any sleeping place?" "Don't know." "Oh, Tom! How'll we engage a canoe?
"I shall feel a little bashful," said Fosdick; "but I suppose we've got to begin some time." "Of course," said Dick. "The important position we hold in society makes it necessary. How'll I be able to hold levees when I'm mayor, if I don't go into society now?" "Very true," said Fosdick; "I don't expect to occupy any such position; but we ought to go in acknowledgment of Mr. Greyson's kindness."
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