The Airplane Boys among the Clouds

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CHAPTER I

TRYING OUT THE NEW BIPLANE

"I tell you, Elephant, it's the Bird boys, and nobody else!"

"But they had a monoplane last summer, Larry; and you can see for
yourself it's a biplane out yonder over the lake. So that's why I
thought it must be Percy Carberry and his crony, Sandy Hollingshead."

"Shucks! stir up your think-box, Elephant. Get a move on your mind,
and look back. Don't you remember Percy lost his old biplane when he
took that trip down to South America, and had some trouble with the
revolutionists in Colombia?"

"Say, now, that's right. You mean the time Andy Bird found his
long-lost father, whose balloon left him a prisoner in such a queer
way? Yes, but tell me, where would Frank and Andy Bird get a biplane
now?"

"Oh! rats, what ails you, Elephant? Didn't they make the other; and
don't you know they've been busy all winter, in that shop Old Colonel
Whympers fitted up for them out in the field? And not even such bully
good friends as you and me were allowed to take a peep inside. That's
what they were working on--building this new biplane, after sending for
the parts."

"Don't it just shine like fun in the sunlight, though?" declared the
little "runt," who had been nicknamed "Elephant" by his chums, possibly
in a spirit of boyish humor, and which name had clung to him ever since.