The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 218 pages of information about The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle.

The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 218 pages of information about The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle.

“Then you’ll travel with us to Philadelphia?” queried Sam.

“Sure.”

“Good!  Tom was just saying he’d like some of the others along.”

“When I got your invitation I danced a jig of delight,” went on Songbird.  “I just couldn’t help it.  Then I sat down and wrote—­”

“A piece of poetry about it thirty five stanzas long,” finished Tom.

“No, Tom, there are only six verses.  You see I couldn’t help it—­I was so chuck full of enthusiasm.  The poem begins like this: 

“’Twas a peaceful, summer night,
When all the stars were shining bright,
There came a rap on our house door
Which made me leap from bed to floor. 
To me had come a telegram
From my old chums, Dick, Tom and Sam
Asking if I had a notion
To sail with them upon the ocean. 
To skim along on waters blue—­”

“And then and there get seasick, too,” finished Tom.  “Don’t forget to put in about the seasickness, Songbird—­it always goes with a voyage, you know.”

“Seasick!” snorted the would-be poet.  “Who ever heard of seasickness in a poem?  The next line is this: 

“And see so many sights quite new,
To rest in quiet day by day
And watch the fishes at their play.”

“That’s the first verse.  The second begins—­”

“Save it, Songbird, until we’re on the yacht,” interrupted Sam.  “We’ll have more time to listen then.”

“All right,” answered the would-be poet cheerfully.  “I want to fix up some of the lines anyhow.  I’ve got ‘harm’ to rhyme with ‘storm’ and it doesn’t quite suit me.”

“Never mind—­a storm often does great harm,” said Dick.  “You can easily fix it up by throwing out both words, you know.”

After that the talk drifted around to the matter of the treasure hunt and Songbird was given some of the details, in which he became much interested.  He declared that he thought the trip on the steam yacht would be even more interesting than the one on the houseboat had been.

“We’re after something definite this trip,” he said.  “We’ve got something to look forward to specially if that Sid Merrick starts a rival hunt.”

“We want to get ahead of Merrick,” answered Dick.  “We want to locate Treasure Isle and get the gold and jewels before he knows what we are up to.”

“What’s the name of the steam yacht.”

“The Rainbow.”

“That’s a good name, for a rainbow is a sign of good promise,” was Songbird’s comment.

The party had to make one change of cars and had their dinner on the train.  They arrived at the Grand Central Depot at half past two o’clock and the Rovers went to a nearby hotel, taking Aleck with them, while Songbird hurried off to transact his business with his uncle.

Mr. Rover had to meet some men who were interested in his mining ventures in the far west, and so, after accommodations had been obtained, he hurried off, leaving the boys to their own devices.

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