: The Bird Boys' Aeroplane Wonder; Or Young Aviators on a Cattle Ranch by Langworthy John Luther - Teenage boys Juvenile fiction; Aeronautics Juvenile fiction; Ranch life Juvenile fiction

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The Bird Boys' Aeroplane Wonder

Or, Young Aviators On a Cattle Ranch

"Was there ever such great luck, fellows?"

"Whew! for one, I feel like giving a vote of thanks to the striking masons, who loafed pretty much all summer, and held the repair work on the Bloomsbury High building up till now."

"Them's my sentiments, Elephant!"

"And they say now the work can't be finished and school taken up till December! What d'ye think of that, Frank, and you, Larry?"

"Glory to goodness! two extra months' vacation, and right through October too, when the chestnuts are ripe, and walnuts are dropping! What bully days we've got ahead of us, boys!"

"And November, too, mind you," went on the little "runt" who had been called "Elephant" in a joke by his chums and could not shake off the name, "the month when the frisky cottontail is also ripe. Say, Frank, won't you have a ge-lorious time trying out that new Marlin pump-gun you got for your last birthday?"

The third member of the group sitting under the beech tree had as yet not spoken, since his two companions started to give expression to their extravagant delight over the wonderful news brought by Fenimore Cooper Small, the aforesaid "Elephant," whose father happened to be the head Selectman of the town, and could fetch the decision of the Board of School Trustees home before the rest of the worthy citizens had been put wise to the facts.

"Well," said Frank Bird, with one of his rare smiles that always made him friends wherever he went, "I had a pretty good idea it would end that way, when I heard how the trustees failed to find any building in town that would answer to house the high school pupils. Yes, I'm glad for some things, and sorry for others. But it'll give the Bird boys a chance to do a little more flying before winter sets in and stops all that fun."

Frank and his cousin Andy had become quite famous throughout the region around Bloomsbury, a town in Central New York, on account of the wonderful success they had made of aviation.

Indeed, some of the doings of the Bird Boys, as they were called, had even found their way into the columns of the big metropolitan papers, and among professional birdmen they were looked upon as most promising "comers."

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