Just then the Monkey, which Sim Green had brought up from Burlington on Saturday, came out off the river in charge of Bolingbroke Millweed.
CHAPTER XXVII.
OSCAR CHESTER TAKES A LESSON IN BOATING.
“I don’t know why it is, but every fellow I ever knew took to boats,” said Oscar Chester, who had just gone to the helm of the Goldwing. “The fellows here are just like all the rest of them, and about every one of them is in the boats. There come three rowboats out of the river.”
“In Burlington all the boys were anxious to get out on the lake. I was like all the rest of them; and, as my father was a pilot on a steamer, I had a better chance than most of them. There is the Goldwing Club,” added Dory, as the four-oar boat came out of the river.
“What’s the Goldwing Club?” asked Oscar.
“We used to have a flat-bottom boat in Burlington, and we formed a club. The craft was smashed; and, after I bought the Goldwing, we used to sail in her. We learned to row, but the club are not doing very well with their oars,” added Dory, as one of the party “caught a crab.”
“Who is managing that sailboat, Dory?” asked Oscar, as he pointed at the Monkey.
“Bolly Millweed; but he don’t know how to do it, and he ought not to come out on the lake without a skipper.”