"I haven't the least idea, but I should think they'd sell it cheap."
"Do you know whether they will sell it?" asked Tom.
"No, not for sure, but I should think they would."
"We can't go by that," declared Bert. "We've got to find out for sure."
"I move that Bert and Cole be a committee to go over to Jamesville, and see if they can buy the engine," sang out Vincent. "That'll start things going."
"Why, we haven't got our fire department yet," objected Charlie
Rupert.
"What's the good of a department if you haven't got an engine?" replied Tom Donnell. "I'm in favor of that motion."
"So am I!" cried a number of the boys.
"We haven't regularly organized," said Bert, who was rather pleased at the enthusiasm of his chums, "but I'll be willing to go over to Jamesville and see what we can do. Cole can look at the pumps, and see if they will work well."
"Yes, they can't fool me on pumps," declared the owner of the improved forcing apparatus on the family cistern.