Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys; Or, The Struggle for the Leadership

Ambitious Jimmy evidently came to the conclusion that a Government submarine was rather larger game than he cared to tackle. Besides, from the riotous way in which his five chum...

Moving about in the steadiest of the little tenders, with a flare in the bow, and Jimmy to gently push in the stern, Jack sought to strike some game fish. His success was not ve...

"Now," Jack hastened to say, "don't make up your minds, boys, that Josh has run against that sort of a hard deal, just because it flashed into my mind. You wanted to know why I...

"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 thin...

"Now, what d'ye know about that?" exclaimed Nick, scrambling to his feet after his usual clumsy way; for when the fat boy happened to become excited he generally "fell all over...

So in the present instance, while it might appear more or less comical, seeing the fat boy crouched in that silly little boat belonging to the _Wireless_, and being dragged thro...

"Jimmy, strike up a bar of 'Nancy Lee,' or the 'Larboard Watch,' while we're moving at this snail's pace along this shallow shore, looking for some nice place to camp."

Uneasiness increased as the shadows of night began to fall around them; and the motor boat boys cast many anxious glances toward the gloomy patches of mangroves along the shore,...

"Nearly three weeks left of our time," remarked Josh, sadly; for, much as they wanted to see the dear ones, they would all be sorry when the vacation had reached its end, and on...

"I heard it, too, Jack!" exclaimed George; but neither of the others seemed to have noticed anything, though in the case of Josh, with his head tied up, this was really not to b...

None of them could have any doubt about it; for was not the excited Jimmy making toward that same reef with all speed? Determined to wrest the laurels from his rival, if it coul...

Nick was allowed to get the rifle, and wind up the career of the savage sea monster. In the morning they estimated his weight, just as they had done with others in the past. Eve...

Everybody was merry that night at supper but Nick. He tried not to show that he felt his sudden and unexpected drop from the top of the ladder to the lower rung; but it was hard...

It seemed to Jack Stormways that all his senses must be on the alert as never before. Even the slightest sound caught his attention--the rustling of a prowling 'coon through the...

"Get up and hustle! Show a leg here, or you'll be frozen in your blanket!" George shouted, excitedly, for his canvas tent was wabbling in the wind like a thing possessed.

"Well, this _is_ a rich joke!" laughed the man. "Just keep your fingers from pressing those triggers, please, boys. No danger of my trying the disappearing act. Fact is, we've b...

"Jerusalem! if I owned that engine, George, do you know what I'd do with it?" Nick was heard to say, as the others drew near. "Why, I'd take the first chance, when in touch with...

"Sure, it's just like ye say, Jack!" exclaimed Jimmy, while they were hurrying toward the imperiled boat at full speed. "They do be throwin' wather out to beat bannigher. Josh h...

They were now fully in the great Gulf of Mexico, and headed for Tampa. Nick had been able to enjoy bear steak to his heart's content. The others pronounced the meat pretty dry,...

"I object," George broke in. "Lots of times the pack of us would have been in a bally lot of hot water only for the clever way you had of handling things."

"Just wait, me laddybuck," he declared, as he shook his finger at the grinning Nick; "the day is long yit, and by the powers, they be other ways of beating that record ye've hun...

"Say, looks like we might have the whole bally armada in the hands of the ship joiners at the same time," chuckled Nick. "Because, you know, George and me want to get a new engi...

"Gee whittaker! but I've caught the biggest ever, I do believe!" Nick was crying. "Just feel that line, would you? Acts like it had hold of a house, with the tide running out. S...