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Updated: June 24, 2025
Scowling and sullen, they were driven off to jail. "Well," said Bud jokingly, "what about that relaxing hike we were starting?" Phyl sighed. "I'm afraid you two boys just can't get away from inventions and adventures." Sandy added, "I suggest we go home for a nice safe dinner." Later, at the Swifts' house, Tom received a telephone call from Chief Slater.
"Faithful Nero!" chuckled Tom. "Aren't going to let the Swifts get done, are you?" "Not if I can help it," declared Ned Newton emphatically. A clerk brought Mr. Bartholomew into the private office and he was introduced to Newton.
Here in this stable I leave the ant's wings that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat me, and let's take to level ground and our feet once more; and if they're not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they won't want for rough sandals of hemp; 'every ewe to her like, 'and let no one stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet; and now let me pass, for it's growing late with me."
The woods and thickets are also ranged by jays, cuckoos, owls, hawks, magpies, butcher-birds Nature's gamekeepers, with a licence to kill, which, after the manner of game-keepers, they exercise somewhat indiscriminately. Above the earth, the air is peopled by swifts and swallows in the daytime, and by goatsuckers at night.
Bartholomew. Just what the nature of that agreement was, would be a matter of interest to the spy's employer. Having failed in this attempt to learn something which was not his business, the spy might make other and more serious attempts to learn the particulars of the agreement between the railroad president and the Swifts.
"Aren't they any relations of Swallows?" asked Rap. "No, my boy; they look like Swallows, but as I think Olive told you once, the Swifts are a family all by themselves. This one lives in the eastern half of the country in summer, and goes far south for the winter.
The kingbird is sometimes called the "bee martin" because he occasionally snaps up the drones. All our insectivorous birds prey upon the flies; the swallows sweep them up in the air, the swifts scoop them in, while, besides the so-called flycatchers, the cedar-birds, the thrushes, the vireos, and all other soft-billed birds, subsist more or less upon them.
This was probably the man who had done all that he could, and that promptly, to set about the discovery of Mr. Bartholomew's reason for visiting the Swifts. Without doubt the man had slunk about the Swift house and had peered into one of the library windows while the interview was proceeding.
We can afford to forego the Government prize for the chance of getting a much larger one. We have as much right to search for the sunken gold as the Swifts have. Come here at once, and we will make our plans." "All right," agreed the agent with a smile as he hung up the receiver. "I guess," he murmured to himself, "that you won't be so high and mighty with me after this, Tom Swift.
Tom was referring to certain strange plants rocketed to earth by unknown space friends with whom the Swifts had been in communication. "I have a hunch," Tom went on, "that the fish might be repelled by the unusual scent of those space plants. If so, we could scatter them among the earth plants to keep the fish away." Mr. Swift was impressed by Tom's idea.
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