The Motor Boys Over the Ocean; Or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-Air

“Oh, I don’t know, Jerry. It seems as if it might be a good one, but we’ve got a fine air-ship now, and it would be a pity to spoil it.”

“I hope so,” added Ned. “But now, what about this new hydroplane business, Jerry? I can listen now with some attention since I’ve told you what was on my mind.”

The good news of the location of Mr. Jackson was so unexpected, that, for a few moments the little party in Mr. Slade’s office hardly knew how to take it. Then they all began ta...

“Easy now! Don’t talk or move! Keep perfectly quiet!” Speaking in a whisper, the scientist slid from his seat with his small butterfly net in his hand. Gliding forward like a hu...

“Here, hold on there! Stop that gasolene contraption! I’ll have th’ law on ye fer runnin’ down my calf-critter! What right ye got t’ go racin’ around th’ land killin’ a poor man...

They were still talking of Mr. Sackett, and, as the account of the happening became generally known in the hotel, many stories showing the meanness of the miserly farmer were to...

“Going to stand here looking at it all night?” demanded Jerry after a pause, during which his two chums had vainly sought to prevent the rain from trickling down inside the coll...

“How did it happen?” demanded Jerry, when the intruder into the professor’s room had succeeded in shaking off the two beetles, and was looking critically at his injured thumbs....

“Oh, that balloon and aeroplane meet will last for some time,” explained the tall lad. “Mr. Jackson is sure to be around there. We’ll land him this time. It won’t take long to f...

These were only a few of the expressions, commands, entreaties and warnings that could be heard coming from the big barn, back of the home of Jerry Hopkins, where, a few days af...

Hastening as rapidly as they could after the excitable lad, our three heroes, with Mr. Glassford and his men turned the corner of the barn, and were soon in the fields back of J...

“Say, isn’t this great?” demanded Jerry of his companions, as he stood in the steering house, and directed the course of the _Comet_ on the lake. “I guess now you agree with me,...

Jerry Hopkins made up his mind that there was but one thing to do. It was utterly out of the question to stop in time now, or to swerve from the direct path, in which was the sm...

Airship travel was scarcely a novelty to our heroes now, but, like many other things, there was always some new feature to it. Just as on an auto trip you never can tell what is...

“No, we’ve got to pull him back right away!” declared the tall lad. “Come on now. He must have fainted, and has very nearly fallen off. Grab his legs! Quick!”

With a suddenness that was almost startling the incandescent lights on the _Comet_ went out. The airship shot forward through the darkness shrouded in gloom--no, not completely,...

“All right, I’m going to start the gas machine,” said Jerry. “Keep cool now, there’s no danger. By Jinks! But we seem to be having all kinds of bad luck lately. First we kill a...

Then they remained silent for a few minutes, going over in their minds their unpleasant situation. They sat on some saw horses which had been hastily thrust into their prison be...

Jerry was working frantically at the machinery. Something seemed to be the matter with it, and he had a fear that perhaps the farmer or his men might have been tinkering with th...

These were some of the comments and questions that greeted our friends as they alighted from their craft. They answered them as well as they could, and, having anchored the _Com...

“What sort of stunts are you going to try, Jerry?” asked Ned, as the tall lad hurried here and there about the _Comet_, looking to see that all the machinery was properly adjusted.

“But we must help them!” exclaimed Professor Snodgrass, who had temporarily abandoned his pursuit after specimens and had joined his friends in the crowd. “They have appealed to...

For a few moments after this unexpected announcement neither of the motor boys knew what to say. Nor did Professor Snodgrass seem able to utter anything in keeping with the seri...

“Oh, I could tell by the expression of your face,” remarked the merchant’s son. “Whenever you begin that way you can generally be depended on, Bob, to say something about eating.”

For a few moments it seemed to the Motor Boys that the end of everything had come. It appeared impossible that their comparatively frail craft could weather the storm in the ver...

Despite the invitation of the captain to remain longer aboard the _Cinnabar_, Jerry and Bob insisted on going back at once to the floating _Comet_. Lars Porsen was sent for and...

Rapidly the motorship shot downward to the surface of the sea, landing on her hydroplanes. She was about half a mile from the dark object that floated on the water, a confused m...

On came the whale. Every moment seemed to increase the terrific speed of the maddened animal. Frantically the boys labored to get out of the way, but it was almost impossible un...

Hardly able to believe or realize what Bob shouted, Jerry and Ned looked to where he pointed. There, in the air over their heads, perhaps a mile or two miles high, was a cigar-s...

The smell of escaping gas from the bag of the big balloon became more pronounced as the _Comet_ approached. Eagerly the boys and Professor Snodgrass looked toward the disabled c...