A Complicated Surprise
After all the ceremonies were completed at the airport, the boys and their parents returned to town and were entertained at dinner by Dr. and Mrs. Morrison. All the trimmings were included, ending up with ice cream and cookies. Nuthin’ leaned back in his chair and patted his belly. “If I’d go up in a plane now,” he remarked jocularly, “The ship would sink like a rock, I feel so heavy.”
The boys laughed heartily. Bobolink said, “That’s nothing. If I got into a plane now, it wouldn’t lift off the ground.”
Some more laughter and a few more clever remarks. Then Ken asked, “Well, what’s on our program now?”
William replied, “Now that we are real pilots, we are going to do some real flying.”
“Not for a few days,” interposed Paul. “We have a swimming match for this coming Saturday and we have to practice up a bit.”
“Yes,” spoke up Jack, “and this time we are going to give that Slavin bunch a good beating.”
“You say that as though you intended to do them physical battle,” remarked Wallace, with a twinkle in his eye.
“Oh, no,” Jack hurried to make himself perfectly understood. “We are going to do it fairly and squarely. The Slavin group is a nice bunch and I don’t hold anything against them.”