The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship

by Richard Bonner

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I].	Ready for the Test	5
[II].	A Signal of Distress	21
[III].	An Aerial Stowaway	31
[IV].	Into the Thick of It	42
[V].	Mutiny	54
[VI].	A Storm at Sea	66
[VII].	The Boys Find New Jobs	76
[VIII].	“This Is the Finish”	84
[IX].	Ashore	95
[X].	The Castaways	105
[XI].	Aboard the Wreck	113
[XII].	In Dire Peril	123
[XIII].	Attacked by a Whale	135
[XIV].	The Sea-Cow’s Lullaby	144
[XV].	The Professor in Trouble	153
[XVI].	The Camp in the Forest	164
[XVII].	The Giant Sloth	175
[XVIII].	In the Jungle	186
[XIX].	Indians of the Amazon	196
[XX].	An “Eel-Ectric” Discovery	205
[XXI].	The Marching Ants	217
[XXII].	“Up a Tree”	227
[XXIII].	The Cleverness of the Captain	236
[XXIV].	The Lion’s Mouth	251
[XXV].	The Tribe of Chekla	265
[XXVI].	Diamonds vs. Freedom	276
[XXVII].	The Professor Triumphs	287

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The Boy Inventors’ Flying Ship

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[CHAPTER I.]
READY FOR THE TEST.

“Shake, Tom, old boy; ‘tip us your flipper,’ as Captain Andrews would say. The Wondership is ready for her final try-out.”

“Finished.” Tom Jesson drew a long sigh, then he wrung his cousin’s hand with energy enough to have wrenched it loose.

Jack Chadwick flung down the “alligator” wrench with which he had been going over every nut and bolt, and capered about the lofty, bare-raftered shed. Tom’s round face beamed, mirroring the other’s high good humor.

“And the try-out’s going to be a big success, Jack,” he declared positively. “I can feel it in my bones,—like Jupe when his rheumatics are coming on. My! Jack, that pontoon idea was the biggest thing we’ve ever struck.”