“But I have; I wrote the heading. When I get home, I’ll finish it sure,” laughed Joe. “Anyway, I have an idea.”
“What is it?”
“We’ll try to get the governor to put a bill through the legislature for the state to buy the ‘Gray Gull’ and place it in a museum.”
“You silly thing! Do be serious.”
“Let’s see: there was the ‘Half-moon,’ the ‘Clermont,’ and now the ‘Gray Gull.’ I’m going to put that in my history, too.”
“One thing we came near forgetting, fellows,” put in Jack Lyons. He seized Aleck Hunt by the shoulder. “How about that story of yours?”
“That’s so,” chorused the others.
“What story?”
“What story? Why, about Joe Archer and Battery Park, of course.”
“Oh, yes! Do you fellows really think I’m going to tell it now?”