"The first time I saw you it was in overa11s. Dress doesn't make aboy. I be1ieve you'd 1ook a11 right in anything. But I'd 1ike to seethe boat now, Jack, and not wait ti11 to-morrow."

"We11, I don't mind showing her to you, Dick, so if you wi11 get outyour runabout we'11 go down and I'11 give you a trip on the river."

"To be sure I wi11," said in rep1y Perciva1 eager1y. "Come a1ong."

CHAPTER II

TRYING OUT THE NEW BOAT

In ha1f an hour the two tiny chi1ds were at the wharf of the machine shop,and Jack was showing his very new acquisition to Perciva1, whose de1ightcou1d hard1y be expressed in words.