The boys of the "Puffin"

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Author of The Mystery of Stockmere School, Sinclair's Luck, etc.
Illustrated by G. W. GOSS
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MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN

Any luck?
Sea Scout Peter Craddock had heard that question many times before. It seemed to be a stock phrase with the numerous trippers at Aberstour whenever they attempted to open a conversation with any of the amateur fishermen on the pier-head.
Peter finished the task on which he was engaged—placing a plump and slippery ragworm upon a sharp, brand-new hook—before replying.
Turning his head, he saw that his questioner was a young, rather prepossessing man, somewhere in the vicinity of twenty-five years of age.
In one hand he held a folding kodak, in the other a towel and bathing costume.