"Here, Tubby, take the wheel a minute, while I put the glasses on her." The lad stood up in the heaving motor craft, steadying himself against the bulwarks by his knees, and peered through his marine-glasses.
"It's the hydroplane, sure enough," he said.

"By ginger, but she can go, all right! Sam and Jack and Bill are all in her.

They seem to be heading right out to sea, too." "Say!" exclaimed Tubby suddenly, "if it comes on to blow, as the captain said it would, they'll be in a bad fix, won't they ?" "In that ther shoe-box thing," scornfully exclaimed the old captain, who had also been looking through the glasses, "why, I wouldn't give a confederate dollar bill with a hole in it fer their lives.".