The Radio Boys at Ocean Point

Bob Layton, as he laid down the hammer he

oment's breathing space. "You might almost think it was August ins

ed Bob. "But, somehow, when I get going on this radio business I can't seem to qui

ll right. I find myself talking radio, thinking radio, dreaming radio.

ng work on the aerial that they were stringing on the top of his father's barn. "But come alon

ched hims

hat," he replied. "I need

leg anyway," counseled Bob. "I

riend's example, he set busily to work. "I think it has it all over the vertical one. We'll be

ter for long-wave work. It stands to reason that since it has the greatest surface area it also has the greatest capacity. Then, too, the end of the antenna that has the greatest po

ntinued, as he deftly drove a nail, "that we're never satisfied with what we've got in this radio work? That first set we put together looked pretty g

tless improvements to be made. I suppose a few years from now we'll be laughing at the instruments we're using now. They'll seem as old fashioned as the stage coach and the kerosene lamp. Some of th

the Eiffel Tower. That starts operations at six o'clock every morning. This fellow has rigged up things all over his house that are controlled by the waves

ook at his friend, "what are you giv

ins to bubble in the percolator, the breakfast is started cooking, and the people are waked up by ele

s the baby, too?" dema

grin; "but it starts a lullaby at night and sings the baby to sleep. It s

hit with him. He'll want to hitch it up so that it will saw wood for him and mow the front la

and for his father. But to-day's baking day at his house, and I smelled doughnuts cooking as

alf right," agreed Bob. "But what's keeping

ned Joe. "But he said he'd slip away a

if we want it done. And it's got to be done this afternoon. They've got a dand

pite the sweat that rolled down their faces and mad

of the barn, Bob?" inquired Joe, at the moment that

e's going to put in a new stone foundation. The old shebang needs a lot of fixing, anyway. The water pipes are rusty,

Say, Bob, what would you give just at this minute to be taking a dip in the briny? Just imagine yourself at the end of the pier with

't you suppose I'm just as crazy as you to get down there? It's only last night that I dreame

" sugge

in a hot, stuffy room, we can sit on the veranda, with the sea breeze blowing all around us, and the o

u're dead right that it will be just what the doctor ordered to listen to a radio concert un

plied Bob. "Then everybody could enjoy it, and there's a broader and bigger piazza

ssages from ships while we are down there. Almost all the vessels now are equipped with

be possible, too, before the end of the summer. I'm studying up hard on the code and I know you are too, and we ought to be able to pass our exami

ion of his glance and g

"Carl Lutz and Terry Mooney always trailing along with

ck that set of Jimmy's that they took. I have to laugh whenever I think of them rolling o

too at the r

laugh, too, when I think how he crawled yesterday when you called

y mind never to speak to him again. But it made my blood boil when I sa

for I wanted to see him get a good trimming. But Buck's memory is good, and I guess h

as sore at him that night and I g

re was no mistake yesterday. Lutz and Mooney were standing close by and saw him take water. He turned fairly green with fright when he saw you double up

f my worries. What's bothering me a good deal more now is why

they don't turn up we'll be done in half an hour or so. Then it's

uants, but the job was done, and Bob and Joe

kled Bob, slapping his friend on the sho

nd gave vent to an ex

queried Joe, who wa

exclaimed Bo

nd saw that the top of the ladder by whic

n," he said; "but it's q

resting solidly against the roof when we left it, for I shook it with my hand to make sure.

e got to stay here all the afternoon and be baked to a frizz

lugubriously. "Mother's out calling

her, and the same thought

they exclaime

im, it follows that he could see us, and he thought he'd keep us up here broiling while he had

t shouted in his wrath. "I'm going to get down off this r

sped the water pipe that ran alongsi

alarm. "The pipe's rusty! It'l

nded almost

ment what he f

that was still fastened to the roof. He caught it and held on, his legs dangling in the air directly