"I tell you, Elephant, it's the Bird boys, and nobody else " "But they had a monoplane last summer, Larry; and you can see for yourself it's a biplane out yonder over the lake. So that's why I thought it must be Percy Carberry and his crony, Sandy Hollingshead." "Shucks stir up your think-box, Elephant. Get a move on your mind, and look back. Don't you remember Percy lost his old biplane when he took that trip down to South America, and had some trouble with the revolutionists in Colombia?"
"I tell you, Elephant, it's the Bird boys, and nobody else " "But they had a monoplane last summer, Larry; and you can see for yourself it's a biplane...
"It was my mistake, Frank " "How do you make that out, Andy?" "Simply because I was using the little patent Bird monkey-wrench last in our shop, and should have put it back in the toolbox belonging to the aeroplane. The fact that it isn't here shows that I mislaid it. Give me a bad mark, Frank." "Well, I must say it's a queer stunt for you to forget anything, Andy Bird. But with dark coming along, and home some miles away, it's plain that we'll have to let the mending of that wing go till morning."
"It was my mistake, Frank " "How do you make that out, Andy?" "Simply because I was using the little patent Bird monkey-wrench last in our shop, and s...
But the Bird boys won the prize of a silver cup " "What if they did? It was by a hair's breadth, Mr. Smarty " "And their monoplane was proven to be faster than the big biplane you built, Puss Carberry " "Oh was it? Don't you be too sure of that, Larry " "Didn't it land on the summit of Old Thunder Top ahead of you and Sandy, in the race that afternoon? Tell me that " and Larry Geohegan bristled up to the recognized bully of Bloomsbury, while a dozen fellows clustered around on the deck of the big power boat, listening eagerly to this war of words.
But the Bird boys won the prize of a silver cup " "What if they did? It was by a hair's breadth, Mr. Smarty " "And their monoplane was proven to be fa...
