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ou big galook!" Pee-wee yelled. "Oh, sure," I said, not paying any attention to him, but all the while rowing hard and looking around very sober like at Westy, "because I know there are lots of bluefish caught near Greenland and you'd think by rights they ought to be green." "Sure," Westy said, "just the same as the fish caught in American River out west, are red, white and blue." "And stars," I said. "Sure the river's full of starfish and striped mackerel--stars and stripes. That's why you have to stand up in the boat if you're rowing on that river ." "Oh, sure," Westy said, "that's why so many boats get upset." Good night! you should have seen Pee-wee. "Keep on bailing, kiddo," I said, "keep plenty of water in the river." "Maybe it would be better to let a little more come into the boat," Westy said, "so as to lower the water in the river, so we can get under the bridge." "The both of you make me tired!" Pee-wee yelled; "do you think I believe all that stuff?" Good night, some circus! It's always that way when Westy and I get out with Pee-wee. Pretty soon we 'heard a loud whistling and we wondered what it was, because it didn't sound like a train and it sure wasn't on a motor-boat. Then Westy began asking what we were going to do about power after we got our stanchions and bumper-sticks and all that fixed. I said we'd have to get Jake Holden to tow us down around into the Hudson and then get somebody to tow us up. Westy said Mr. Ellsworth thought it would be cheaper to take our little three horse power engine out of our launch and install it in the houseboat. I said, "That would be all right, only it would kick us along so slow that we'd spend all our vacation on the trip and wouldn't have any time at camp." Cracky; I didn't want to start back as soon as we got there. "Well, then, there's only one thing to do," Westy said, "and that's for us to get towed and that costs a lot of money." All the while the whistling kept up and it was awful loud and shrill, sort of, as if it was mad--YOU know how I mean. "I know what it is," I said; "it's somebody waiting for the bridge to be opened." "Good night, they stand a tall chance," Westy said. "It's a tug, that's what it is," Pee-wee said; "I can see the smoke. It's going up in a big column." "It's more than a column, its a whole volume," Westy said, looking around. "There must be books on that boat; the smoke is coming out in volumes."
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