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The railroad skirted one shore and then passed through the town. Some miles off arose a lofty peak known as Old Thundertop, which had a road running part way up its side. The summit was believed to be utterly inaccessible to mortal man until one day the Bird boys managed to accomplish the wonderful feat by the aid of their aeroplane.
"Frank seems to think he will give up that mean sort of play, because we really saved his life that time we had our race to the rock on the summit of Old Thundertop, and his aeroplane was smashed there; so one of us had to carry Percy and Sandy home, bruised as they were. But I don't, because I know it'd take more than that to change the spots of a fellow of his kind.
Goodness knows he owes you a heap, after the way you saved his life the time he was wrecked up on Old Thundertop." What Andy referred to was a very exciting event which had occurred not so very long before, and which was fully treated in the volume preceding this. Frank shook his head in the negative. "I never want to ask any favor of Percy Carberry," he said, resolutely. "And if Mr.
And while Frank was inclined to partly believe that the Carberry boy might let up in his mischief-making ways for awhile at least, after all they had done for him up on Old Thundertop, Andy could not bring himself to trust the other further than he could see him.
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