“Two or three, I think.”
“Well, then, maybe I’ll let this one go if it tries to get away,” Dick said. “Are you ready?”
Roy said that he was, but at that moment Chub hailed them.
“Where you fellows going?” he shouted.
“Across the river,” answered Roy. “Dick wants to study ice-boats. Want to come?”
Chub and Harry and Sid joined them, the latter begging them to wait until he could get his skates on.
“All right, slow poke,” answered Roy. “How about you, Harry? It’ll be beastly cold out in the middle there.”
“Oh, I’m nice and warm,” answered Harry. “What did you say about an ice-boat?”
“Dick never saw one before and he wants to go over and make the acquaintance of that one over there. Whose is it, Harry? Do you know?”