"Good night, Judge," responded the boys, Jack adding as they went out, "I won't leave him out of sight until I have him safe in the house."
CHAPTER XIX
A NARROW ESCAPE
"Row, brothers, row," said Gerald "Kape it up, you're doin' fine."
"How are we going?" asked Rand.
"Almost as fasht as Oi c'ud walk," replied Gerald in his richest brogue. "Av ye hit it up a bit mebbe ye c'ud be in toime to see the ind av it to-morrow, Oi dunno."
"But truly, Geraid," asked Donald, "how are we doing?"
"As weil as c'ud be ixpected av a lot of farmers," replied the irrepressible Gerald. "Ye moight do worse, Oi dunno. Mebbe av ye tho't ye were hoeing potatoes ye c'ud do betther. Can't ye hit up a bit?"
"I guess we can; a little," replied Rand, who was rowing stroke, slightly increasing his effort. "How is that?"
"Betther," responded the other, and the boat shot ahead a little faster.