CHAPTER XIV A BLOCKED ROAD
"Oh! Ah! Um!"
"Who said get up?"
"Gee-whiz, but I'm tired!"
"So is the auto—rubber tired."
"Joke! Ha! Ha! Everybody snicker!"
The three chums turned over on their bunks in the Last Word, and looked one at the other.
"Well, if you fellows are going to lie abed all day, I'm not!" exclaimed Paul, he and his two companions having just indulged in the little morning "roundelay" I have used to introduce this chapter. He sprang from the bunk.
"'Up, up, Lucy!'" he quoted. "'The sun is up, and I am up too!' First reading lesson. Come on, fellows!" and he pulled the covers from Dick.