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Updated: September 19, 2025
"I'll get the boat as soon as he lands, and keep it out of sight till you've done the trick. "Nothing like killing two birds with one stone," grinned Bill Bender. "My! what a time there'll be in the morning, when they find out that there's been a regular double cross." "Hush! Here come those three kids now," warned Sam, as Rob, Merritt and Tubby came down the street.
Hauksbee had seen an earlier generation of his stamp bud and blossom, and decay into fat Captains and tubby Majors. At a moderate estimate there were about three and twenty sides to that lady's character. Some men say more. She began to talk to Pluffles after the manner of a mother, and as if there had been three hundred years, instead of fifteen, between them.
Tubby of the golden locks; Langley of the dented nose; Shamus stout of heart but faint of limb, easy enough to "down," but utterly impossible to make to cry: "I give you best;" Neal the thin; and Dicky, "dicky Dick" the fat; Ballett of the weeping eye; Beau Bunnie lord of many ties, who always fought in black kid gloves; all ye others, ye whose names I cannot recollect, though I well remember ye were very dear to me, whither are ye vanished, where haunt your creeping ghosts?
"Well," she said to herself, "we've got 'Tubby' to the point where she doesn't need a stepmother; it's quite unnecessary that she should have one at all, least of all Frau Marianne. I believe in giving every one their due but I wouldn't risk a penny on betting that her heart is even as big as an old hen's that you make soup out of.
'What! he cried. 'Is this the wonderful beauty? 'Yes, father, it is she, replied Desire with a sheepish look. 'But she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife. 'Does she say so? Well, if you believe that, you may drink cold water and think it bacon, the unhappy Tubby answered crossly.
"I had nothing to do with the song, and all the boys have called you Tubby since you came here," went on Sam. "Be quiet, I tell you!" cried Jasper Grinder, and clutched the arm of each so tightly that Tubbs set up a yell of pain. "I am master here, and I will show you how to mind." At these words Sam's heart gave a sudden drop.
"By-one-by-a-quarter-one!" came sharply from Tubby, as the Flying Fish seemed hardly to crawl along the water. "By-a-half!" came an instant later, meaning that only three feet of water lay right ahead. "Stop her," roared out Rob. But he was too late.
"As well as ever," responded Merritt. "Now for the shore. By the way," he broke off in a dismayed tone, "where is the shore?" "I know now," rejoined Tubby in a confident tone. "Off there to the right. You see, that steamer was hugging the coast preparatory to heading seaward at least, I'm pretty sure she was, and that would put the shore on her port side, or on our starboard."
Now, the only trouble that Lord Tubby had was about his son, whom he loved very much, although they were not in the least alike, for the young Prince was as thin as a cuckoo.
Richards, after lining the boys up and telling them of the conditions of the race. There was a dead silence. "Go!" shouted the starter. Away went the eight skaters, side by side each striking out bravely. Fred was in the lead, with two Pornell boys a close second, while Tom Rover was fourth. "Go in, Tom, you must win!" sang out Dick excitedly. "Hurrah for Tubby!" came from several others.
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