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"All right, we won't charge you for sitting on it," came from the back of the crowd. "My right name is " "Barrel, but they call me Tubbs for short," finished another student. "Hurrah, Tubby is discovered at last." "Don't blush, Washtub! you don't look half as pretty as when you're pale." "If you feel warm, Buttertub, go out and sit on the thin ice.
Go it, Tubby! Christopher, but you'll never stay the course!" The cries were taken up by the other fellows and excitement grew furious, which only served to exasperate my pursuer still more. I was flying for dear life. I knew very well, if that sentry got within bayonet reach of me, that my days were ended. He was seeing red with a vengeance.
He had only just time to belay it round the cleat to avoid its being jerked out of his hand, so fast was the creature they had hooked now traveling. "Say, Tubby," spoke Merritt at length, "I'm beginning to think myself that it might not be a bad idea to put back. Those clouds over there on the horizon look as if they meant trouble."
Then, as if remembering something he had forgotten, Dave looked toward his pony. To his great relief he saw Crow rise to his feet, shake himself and run off a little way, seemingly little the worse for his adventure. "Thank goodness!" murmured Dave, and there was a prayer of gratitude in his heart. "I thought he was a goner." "And we thought you were," put in Tubby Larkin, as he strode up.
From the mouth of the inlet there had stolen a long, low, black craft, gliding through the water at tremendous speed. In the strange craft the boy scouts had little difficulty in recognizing Sam Redding's hydroplane. "So he's got her back," exclaimed Merritt, recovering from his first astonishment. "Yes, and she seems little the worse for her experience," remarked Tubby.
This beautiful spot was not so very far away, but it called for a picnic lunch, and Tubby was quite two hours in getting them there. It was a wild hollow, with great beech trees, and a noisy stream chaffing in a rocky bed down the middle of the glen.
Tubbs was a boy of rich parentage, and while he was not particularly a bully, he considered himself of great importance and vastly superior to the majority of his associates. "All right, Tubby; if it isn't so wonderful, just you jump up and do it," returned Sam coldly. "Look here, how many times have I told you not to call me Tubby!" burst out the rich youth. "I don't like it at all."
I see him come scramblin' over the back gate and was a-goin' to stop him thinkin' it was th' orficer here w'en I sees it is a tubby little chap, not big like the Captain. And then it come over me quite sudden-like that burglary and murder had been done in the house and wot would I say if a p'liceman come along? So I slipped off and went as hard as I could go back to the old Union Jack Club.
"It's a lucky thing the beast didn't start some plank of the boat when it charged; but as far as I can see, the Flying Fish stood the shock all right." "It felt like an earthquake," murmured Hiram, whose face was white and eyes frightened. "Well, I suppose we'd better head for home," said Tubby at length. "Those bluefish will go fine for supper." "Spoken like a Tubby," laughed Merritt.
"Say, you, did you ever hear an eagle scream with his mouth full of bread and jam?" demanded Merritt, as the stout youth appeared. "Eagles don't eat bread and jam," rejoined Tubby, defending his position. "Have some?" "Having had breakfast not more than an hour ago, I'm not hungry yet, thank you," politely rejoined the corporal; "besides, I'm afraid I'd get fat."
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