| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| [BANG! CRACK! BANG! WENT THE GUNS THE BOYS CARRIED] | Frontispiece |
| [“HURRAH! LOOK AT THAT! COLBY LEADS!”] | 98 |
| [THE HAMMOCK, WITH JEFF IN IT, STRUCK THE BROOK] | 227 |
| [THE LADS HAD GOOD CAUSE TO BE ANGRY] | 255 |
THE ROVER BOYS AT
BIG BEAR LAKE
CHAPTER I
ON THE LAKE
“It’s great, I’ll say!” declared Randy Rover.
“I should say it was!” returned his twin brother, Andy. “Just think of swooping through the air like a bird! Gee, I’d like to own a flying machine myself!”
“Well, our fathers owned one once,” declared Captain Fred Rover, somewhat proudly. “They flew clear to Brill College in their machine.”
“Yes, I’ve often heard them talk about that,” put in Major Jack Rover. “They called the machine the Dartaway. It was a biplane and of rather primitive construction, because in those days aeroplanes were a new invention and the best of them were rather crude.”
“I wonder what ever became of that machine?” questioned Andy.
“Oh, it went into the scrap heap long ago,” declared his cousin Fred.