the boys would turn over and grunt, or else raise his head to look
around him at the flickering light of the fire on the walls of the
lonely woods' shack.

As many as six times did Hugh crawl out from the warm folds of his
blanket to replenish the fire, for the night air was chill; and after
one has slept, his body is apt to feel cold, as the heart beats
less rapidly, and the blood circulates with more difficulty.

But thank goodness, these things must all have an end, and Bud heaved
a sigh of profound thanksgiving when finally he saw signs of dawn
appear through the open window.

"Day's coming on, and we're all on deck with nothing gone wrong!" he
observed loud enough for the others to hear him. This chanced to be
one of Bud's ways of informing his chums that he thought it high
time they turned out for "reveille."

As there was no use in trying to sleep any longer with the anxious Bud
on deck, since this was to be looked upon as his particular day, Hugh
and Ralph followed the other's example, and were soon hustling out to
wash in water that nearly froze their fingers it was so cold.

The sun was nearing the horizon, and from all indications it promised
to be just such a day as the one before had proved; which fact
delighted Bud immensely.

"Because," he explained after giving an exhibition of a Highland Fling
to allow some of his pent-up enthusiasm to escape, "this is the day
a Morgan is going to win fame or else make the grandest foozle you
ever saw."

CHAPTER V

THE "FOOL-PROOF" AEROPLANE

"That was a good breakfast, all right, but I'm glad it's over," Bud
remarked some time later.

Ralph, of course, did not exactly understand what this meant, but
Hugh knew. He was in the confidence of the young inventor far enough
to appreciate his eagerness to be at work. He knew what had brought
Bud all the way up to this lonely spot, in order that none of the
town boys might spy upon him while trying out his latest wonderful
invention.

Truth to tell, Bud had taken a most intense interest in aviation of
late. Everything that bore upon the subject fascinated the boy, and
he dreamed of making the name of Morgan famous through some
remarkable invention connected with the work of the daring airmen.

He had confessed to Hugh in strict confidence that he had managed to
fashion a little model aeroplane that he believed to be uncapsizable.
Many more mature minds than that of Bud Morgan had been wrestling with