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Updated: June 5, 2025
They get the $100 prize, but that's a mighty small amount for such ingenuity. If it wasn't for that German inventor you could have made thousands of dollars out " "Pshaw, we only wanted first prize," exclaimed Nipper Knapp. Then he shouted, "Hi, fellows, we win, and we'll have our motorboat Whoope-e-e-e! Three cheers."
"Would you believe it, fellows," he cried, "while we've been nearly breaking our necks looking to the east and south for a sail, why, here's a little buzzing motorboat acoming along an the same tack we carried; and ten chances to one now, it's carrying our two good Silver Fox pards, Smithy and Bob White!"
Came a second shot from behind him, and turning, the two saw a little motorboat that had crept up behind them unnoticed. "We surrender!" called Lord Hastings, fearing to take a chance that the next shot would miss. The motorboat came toward them quickly.
But I think we'll weather it, as the sailors say. But I wonder what Mr. Pertell is doing?" She motioned to the manager who was seen amidships, talking to Russ, the chief camera operator. They were near the big motorboat Ajax, which still rested in the cradle on deck. Mr. DeVere was also in conversation with the manager and his chief helper. "Let's go over and see what it is," suggested Alice.
All the regular boys and girls in town thoroughly disliked "the set," but there were a few girls who were willing to put up with Percy Falconer and his crowd for sake of the long motor rides, dances, dinners and motorboat picnics that the boys were able to give them.
"But what about the prize, and the motorboat?" "Don't ye worry about sich things. That matter is all settled. The boys love ye so much that they're willin' to do anything." Whyn lay very still for awhile, her eyes moist with tears. The captain, sitting by her side, watched her in silence. "It is too much for them to do," the girl at last murmured. "Oh, not at all," the captain replied.
Indeed, they even went so far as to stake some of the precious motor money on the result, for they took fifteen dollars from the Woodbridge bank to pay for the lumber and other material needed to build Nipper's big vacuum pest catcher. "If we don't win that prize now all our chances for a motorboat are gone for sure," said Babe Wilson when Bud Weir announced the withdrawal of part of the fund.
Fletcher pointed out to him a strange, spotted lizard, which scurried for shelter from the intruders. As they returned, they loitered by the green, verandaed club house to count the fast diminishing fleet of yachts, and joined an ironic audience who watched the struggles of two motorboat owners with their craft, and a pair of rickety wagon trucks.
He swam on fuming at this latest annoyance. Then to his ears came the steady purr of a motorboat. It was close to him and coming closer. "Boat ahoy!" he sang out treading water and raising himself as high as possible to peer about him through the dusk. "Boat ahoy!" he called again, shouting to be heard above the motor's hum. "Man overboard! Ten dollars if you'll carry me to the mainland!"
"No, but speaking seriously," went on Russ, "the Ajax will be cradled on the deck of the schooner; that is, the motorboat will be set in two V shaped affairs, called cradles. That's to prevent her rolling off into the high seas."
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