"Yes, and he can get speed out of a canal-boat," laughed Dick.
"Do you want him?"
"We certainly do," said the other emphatically. "We have heard
of him, and we certainly want him."
"Here he is now. You can ask him yourself." The other boy was
a bit surprised at seeing the very boy he had been talking about,
and said:
"But I thought you were bigger. They said you were strong and wiry,
and I expected to see a giant. Why, you are no bigger than I am.
And you can run a motor-boat?"
"Certainly he can," replied Dick. "Size does not count in a thing
like that. Why, I am bigger than Jack, but he can beat me running a
boat. Then there is little Jesse W. Smith, who is the smallest thing
in the way of a boy in the Academy, and he has beaten boys twice his
size."
"And you will be down?" to Jack himself.
"If I am chosen to represent the Hilltop boys, I will certainly be
on hand," Jack replied. "I should like nothing better."
Other boys now came up, and Percival told them about the regatta to
be held at the other camp on the next day, but one, all of them being
greatly excited over it.
"Even if we don't take part I suppose we can go?" asked Billy Manners.
"There ought to be a lot of fun in it.
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