CHAPTER III
THE SURPRISE
“WELL, what do you want to play?” Billy asked, after the hubbub had a little subsided.
“Let’s go to the park and play football,” Jimmy responded quickly.
“But the girls and small fry can’t come in on that. Besides, that little city kid’ll be lonesome if I leave her.”
“Well I’m not going to stay an’ play kid games,” Jimmy retorted loftily, and turned away.
“Me neither,” George endorsed.
“All right,” Billy acquiesced with a nonchalant tact; “I thought Sour’n Shifty’d make good surveyors, Pretty; but I guess you can do that an’ your own job too, can’t you?” Billy turned to Harold, while George watched to see what Jimmy did.
“Surveyors? What’s your scheme?” Jimmy was quickly interested.
“Why, I’d planned a big stock concern, like business men. We’ll build a railroad, telegraph line—that comes first, though; we’ll have gold and copper mines, and a wharf. And next we’ll launch the steamer we’ve been making.”