Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-08-24


as both Of us-and begin again
what you descendants OF thousand years OF
cabbages need is judgment If you re going to run
a motor boat you want to 90 at It right. You want
to hire nurse girl Any little girl who has been
through the first reader will do Take her nl9ng ia
do your thinking for you And you need better
boat, too Why don't you get piano box and USE
an electric fan for propeller? IF you don't want
to make such a big improvement all at once you
could do 1t by degrees, You might start in with a
tub And you ought to begin studying a coffee mill
when you get home. A couple of chaps OF your
caliber ought to learn how coffee mill pretty
well In about Ave years The trouble with all fools
is they want to do much at once Now II YOU
would get egg beater and practice starting and
stopping tt"
1t was very soothing, this conversation Of Ban.
burys After about hour, 1t stopped blowing and
began to rain-nasty, cold rain We were as well
protected a church steeps. Baubury seemed ia
get still peevish after it had rained a while
He would empty his shoes and his hat and wiring out
his coat, and by that time he would have thought
up something more to say. lie n wonder at
thinking up things. We sat there and took it. On
other occasions might have talked bock but what
could we say? We threw all our repartee overheard
with that engine
1t raned and rained, and dinner time passed, with
nothing board nourishing than gasoline.
Two O'Clock went by, aud after stretch Of time long
enough to season pyramid, three o'clock arrived;
when it had arrived it went away fast an
Arkansas freight train-and then heard a motor
boat whistle upstream.
When Banbury heard that whistle he jumped up
and began yelling like mad. He danced and swung
his hat and shrieked until felt distressed over the
waste of sound. The whistle came from little clam.
ming boat on 1t way down river, but it looked like
transatlantic liner when 1t chugged up and tied on
to
We going to explain what had happened and
hum ,1v no
headed of. The chance of had driven him
clean daft. All his fright had back and he
possessed Of just idea He wanted get
solid land-to feel it with his Sect put both
around 1t, and to camp there forever
"All want" he shouted, hauling his pocket
book us to be taken that shore Under
stand? There's FIVE dollars In it for you You take
there and help me, If set foot in
a devil-but death trap again. hope go down head
foremost"
whats the hurry, old man." remarked Jones
smoothly, well get fixed up pretty and take you
back"
Take me back :" roared Banbury; take me back
I'm going to walk back. I've been out with fools
long enough No boats for me; I'm done with
'em forever Just let get that shore there
and I'll show you how to get back. I'll wall-Iye
had my lesson"
"But it's ten miles and no roads old man; Won
better back with U.s." sail Jones blaudly Well
n
occurrence"
"Id rather crawl all the way" shouted Barbury.
Don't talk to me, You fools. Youn never get that
boat back, anyway Just shore my friend"
"oh, very well" said Jones. Come back for us,
old man." he shouted the clanlmer the latter
off; we've got work for you, there's another
five in It
We watched the little boat chug upstream to the
bank Banbury holding with both hands Then
Jones grabbed the oil and got ont the
what are you going to dog I asked
We're going to 90 home IN the Pc9oy and we're
going to beat Banbury,' he said Srlmly.
We watched Banbury scramble up the bank and
disappear in the underbrush The clammer stuck
her into the stream again and churgel back.
Some scared, he was" her skipper said he tied
And we're some busy" said Jones, "Just anchor,
will you?"
The clanlmer dropped ifty.round stone overheard,
and we tied on. Then hoiste1 motor from
the damp ugubrious deep. Ever hoist 15Opound
motor in a tippy boat? It's snap. I had a lame
back for a week But managed It, the three of
us, aud hauled it in.
nave feyeriSh activity on several occasions
have try to carry pianos and coal buckets
ont of Il burning house, and | myself have argued
with as many four hundred bunblebecs at one
time when a boy. But those Of leisure
compared with the next half hour We dried that
motor with everything in the boat Luckily il had
stopped raining We poured gasoline on 1t and
burned the gasoline--nce, safe job in greasy boat
We oiled it and creased II all over, Then bolted
it down. connected everything up and cranked it
She started the nnetysixth yank
We paid the clanmer and sent him onto the locks
rejoicing The Pe0gV wabbed upstream and
her, watch In hand praying and hoping She sneezed
and she back fired and she skipped about three shots
out of five But she kept going, while We pNted her
engine and dosed her with oil whenever she tSltorod
Just the clocks striking seven We ran her
into the dock, yelled to the boy to take OF her.
and sprlnted for the street
In fifteen minutes my home, In twenty
more OF hot bath and In dry clothes
In tteen m!Rutes more full of hot coffee ard what
ever could find, Jones aud were seated my
front porch lie In my clothes two sizes too long for
him, reading the Sunday papers and smokng--and
waiting for Baubury
When we had waited about ten minutes, street
car stopped and u horrible object got OK It was
soggy and crumpled. II had cocklehuys on its legs
and Spanish raedlos In It's hair, II had lor, It's hat
It was pasterod with mud where It Ind fallen down.
It didn't have any coat 1t wabbled when IL walked,
It pRrhury.
uttoiin aid i,a snil JOnhe, Il went pnst "Why