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Title: The Aeroplane Boys Flight
A Hydroplane Roundup

Author: John Luther Langworthy

Release Date: January 2, 2004 [EBook #10576]

Language: English

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THE AEROPLANE BOYS FLIGHT

Or A Hydroplane Roundup

By JOHN LUTHER LANGWORTHY

MADE IN U.S.A.

M.A. DONOHUE & COMPANY

CHICAGO NEW YORK

1914

CONTENTS

Chapter

I--THE BOY FLIERS

II--ON GUARD

III--NOT CAUGHT NAPPING

IV--THE STARTLING NEWS

V--THE EXCITEMENT GROWS

VI--FIGURING IT ALL OUT

VII--THE AIR SCOUTS

VIII--JUST BELOW THE CLOUDS

IX--THE PILOT OF THE MERMAID

X--HEARD OVER THE WIRE

XI--COMPARING NOTES

XII--AT THE HOSKINS FARM

XIII--THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR

XIV--A CLUE

XV--WHEN CASPER CAME BACK

XVI--THROWING OFF THE MASK

XVII--SALLIE RIDES BAREBACK

XVIII--AN AEROPLANE CHASE

XIX--DROPPING A "BOMB!"

XX--OVER LAND AND SEA

XXI--OVER THE BOUNDARY LINE

XXII--THE HYDROPLANE RESCUE

XXIII--BROUGHT TO BOOK--CONCLUSION

THE AEROPLANE BOYS FLIGHT

Or A Hydroplane Roundup

CHAPTER I

THE BOY FLIERS

"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."

"But do you think, Frank, it's just safe to leave our pet hydroplane
over night in this field on the Quackenboss farm?"

"Why not, Andy? Sky as clear as a bell; little or no wind promised; and
then we can hire the farm hand, Felix Boggs, to keep an eye on it. Looks
as easy as falling off a log."

"And all because I didn't put that little wrenc