Louis Arundel

Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys Louis Arundel

Publisher Marketing: "Get busy here, Nick; now's your chance to make a big score for a starter!" "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 thing the worst kind." "Oh! shucks! don't mention it, Nick. We're all interested in your game, and you know it. Besides, there goes your rival, Jimmy, right now, in his little dinky boat, and with a wide grin on his face. Jack's given him a holiday, to celebrate the opening of the great fishing contest. Get a move on, you slow-poke!" "Gee! then he'll get a start on me. I must hurry. Now, where in the dickens is that other oar, George? Oh! here she is, tucked away under the thwart. And can you tell me what I did with that mullet the cracker gentleman gave me, to use for bait? Please help me get started, George. Seems like everything wants to go wrong at once!" "Here you are, Nick. Got your tackle all right, have you; and sure that life preserver is in the boat? All ready? Then away you go; but keep clear of the inlet, if the tide changes, or you might get carried out to sea in that eight-foot dinky." Three minutes later, and Nick Longfellow-who belied his name dreadfully, in that he was short, and fat, and built pretty much after the style of a full meal bag-was rowing clumsily toward a likely spot, where he believed he might do some successful fishing.