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"Get busy here, Nick; now's your chance to make a big score for a starter " "It's awful kind of you, George, to let me out of my part of the work this afternoon, and that's a fact. I appreciate it, too; because I just want to beat Jimmy out in this thing the worst kind."

"Aw, quit your kidding, now, George. You know I said I'd stick by you to the bitter end; and nobody ever knew Nick Longfellow to back water, did they?" "I guess you're right about that, Pudding. Your word is your strongest hold-next to eating. I depend on you to be my boat-mate on that long cruise, if so be we make a go of the race." "Huh even if Herb Dickson and Josh Purdue can't get a chance to enter this old tub of theirs which they call the Comfort, what's to hinder us from starting when Jack heads his dandy Tramp south; tell me that?"

"What are we waiting for, Commodore Jack?" "Yes, I'm the last one to be in a hurry, boys, but it seems to me we ought to be getting away. The river ain't waiting up for us, you notice." "Hold your horses, Buster, and count noses; perhaps you'll find that there are only five of us present." "Huh guess you're right, Josh Purdue; but what's become of Jimmie. I never heard a splash, and I don't see him swimmin', if he is a regular water duck. Water's too cold any way, this fine April day, for goin' in."

"Toot your horn, Jimmy, and let everybody know we're off at last " "Sure, there's the ould Wireless coming up on us, hand over fist. It's a broth of a bhoy George Rollins is for speed " "Yes, he always starts out well, and with a rush; but generally manages to have his engine break down; and then even the wide old tub Comfort gets there ahead of the narrow speed boat. Now give 'em a blast, Jimmy. The coast cruise is on "

"What a funny cow that is, Josh Look at the silly thing poking her bally old horns in the ground, and throwing the dirt up. Say, did you ever see anything like that? Why, the poor beast must be sick, Josh " "Cow? Great Jupiter Buster, you silly, don't you know a bull when you see one?"