. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls . jumps. Dashing around the front of the build-ing, he reached the corner which gave him a viewof the side. ^ Not a soul was in sight. Not to be outdone 70 AROUND THE WORLD IN TEN DAYS completely, Tom hurried along the side of thebuilding. As he came near the rear end he sawa slender figure just clambering over the high-board fence of the field in the rear of the hangar. Lame as he was, big Tom knew there was nochance of his overtaking the fleet-footed andcunning stranger, so he returned to his workvery much crestfallen in spirit. When John
. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for boys and girls . jumps. Dashing around the front of the build-ing, he reached the corner which gave him a viewof the side. ^ Not a soul was in sight. Not to be outdone 70 AROUND THE WORLD IN TEN DAYS completely, Tom hurried along the side of thebuilding. As he came near the rear end he sawa slender figure just clambering over the high-board fence of the field in the rear of the hangar. Lame as he was, big Tom knew there was nochance of his overtaking the fleet-footed andcunning stranger, so he returned to his workvery much crestfallen in spirit. When John heard what had happened, on hisreturn to work, he was considerably disturbed,and suggested to his comrades the advisability ofplacing a night-guard on the premises for a whileat least, since this unknown enemy might makean effort some night to burn or irreparably dam-age the Sky-Bird. The others sanctioned thisprecaution, and thereafter took turns in watch-ing, although this vigilance was apparently allfor naught, as no suspicious character CHAPTER VIII THE SKY-BIRD II WELL, Mr. GIddings, what do youthink of Sky-Bird II? asked JohnRoss, one memorable was a smile of deep satisfaction onJohn s own bronzed features as he put the ques-tion, a smile which was duplicated on the facesof his three co-workers—Paul, Bob, and TomMeeks. It was the latter part of March, Eastervacation week for Paul and Bob, and the twochums had been working every one of the lastthree days helping John and Tom put the finish-ing touches on the big new airplane. And nowthis Friday morning it rested gracefully uponits own rubber-tired wheels, its great stretchof wings spread out as airily as those of a mon-ster bird, its huge two-bladed propeller glisten-ing like burnished silver, and its body runningbackward in a splendid symmetrical taper, toend at the well-proportioned tail. Sky-Bird IIwas done at last. Mr. Giddings was so lost in admiration atthe beautiful lines of the craft that he
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