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"If it's like this to-morrow it will be grand for skating!" exclaimed Nan. "Yes, and fine for ice-boating, too," replied her brother. "We'll beat you to Snow Lodge." "Well, you ought to," said Dorothy, "but we'll be warmer skating than you will be on the ice-boat." "Not when we take along all the fur robes I've got out for the trip," replied Bert.
"What do you know about mechanical drawings?" he asked the bashful youngster, pointing to the drawing under discussion. "I don't know nothing about it," replied the kid meaning me again. "I just made it with a ruler." "But how come you made it to scale? That drawing is a complete plan and elevation of an ice-boat, drawn accurately to scale." He looked thoughtful. "I don't understand it.
Otherwise I'd be glad to go." "Well, maybe my father will sail in the ice-boat with me," spoke Bert. "I guess I'll ask him." Bert and Nan had much to talk about as they skated on, having bidden Charley goodbye, and their conversation was mostly about the new idea of getting to Snow Lodge on the ice. "I don't want to skate alone, any more than you want to go in the ice- boat alone," said Nan.
But now the ice-boat is almost done and in a few days I'll sail it." "And may I have a ride?" asked Nan. "Of course. I'll take the whole family," said Bert. "Just you wait," and then he and Tommy went on hammering and sawing. "All aboard!" "Don't forget your baggage!" "This way for your tickets!" "The ice-boat Bird makes no stops this side of the lake! All aboard!"
"He hasn't a chick or a child and he lives all alone in the woods." "Yes, poor Uncle Jack doesn't have a very happy life," said Mr. Bobbsey. "I must see what we can do to help him." Little was talked of in the Bobbsey home that afternoon and evening but the adventure with the ice-boat, and what had happened to Flossie and Freddie when it ran away with them.
Well, I'll steer the boat back and we'll give them a ride. Won't it be fun, Flossie?" "Ye-yes, maybe. If you can do it." "Do what?" "Steer the ice-boat back." "Of course I can do it!" cried Freddie. "I can squirt water from my fire engine, can't I? And that isn't any harder than this."
And it was still that same Winter, after Tommy's father had come home, that we find the Bobbsey twins skating on the ice, having just missed being run into by the ice-boat. "My! but that was a narrow escape!" exclaimed Nan, as she skated slowly about. "My heart is beating fast yet." "So's mine," added Flossie. "Did he do it on purpose?" "No, indeed!" exclaimed Bert. "I guess Mr.
Down to the glittering, icy lake went the boys and girls, down to where the ice-boat awaited them. It had been put in good shape for the trip, but before starting Bert and Harry looked over all the ropes to make sure none were frayed, or had been cut. Nothing had been seen of Danny Rugg, and Charley Mason told Bert he thought the bully had gone to the wood camp with his father.
I won't bother you any more!" Danny was soon out of sight, running off in the direction of his father's lumber tract, and soon Bert and the others went back to the ice-boat. They stopped at the blacksmith shop to have the hatchet sharpened, and reached home after a little sail on the Ice Bird. "Did anything happen this time?" asked Freddie, as he greeted them on the return to Snow Lodge.
"Just wait until it's finished!" said Tommy Todd. "When we get the sail on " "Oh, Bert! is it a boat?" cried Nan eagerly. "Yes, it's going to be an ice-boat, and I've called it the Bird," was the answer. "I got the idea of building it after I'd seen Mr. Watson's. Father said I might, and he gave me the lumber, and let me have a carpenter to help, for Tommy and I couldn't do it all.
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