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The Adventure Club Afloat

CHAPTER I
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And I'm tired of dabbing whitewash on my shoes! Didn't you fellows ever think that you'd like to get good and dirty and not have to care?
Wouldn't you like to put on an old flannel shirt and a pair of khaki trousers and some 'sneakers' and--and roll in the mud ?" "Elemental stuff," murmured Joe.

"He's been reading Jack London." "Well, that's the way I feel, lots of times," said Perry defiantly.

"I'm tired of being clean and white, and I'm tired of dinner jackets, and I'm sick to death of hotel porches! Gee, a healthy chap never was intended to lead the life of a white poodle with a pink ribbon around his neck! Me for some rough-stuff!" "You're dead right, too," agreed Steve.

"That kind of thing is all right for Joe, of course.

Joe's a natural-born 'fusser.' He's never happier than when he's dolled up in a sport-shirt and a lavender scarf and toasting marshmallows.


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