as he was talking with his friends a

Fire the cannon, ring the bells, han

you only been thinking that you

t? Are you taking anything for it? You don't want to let it go too long, Bob. I knew a fellow who ha

my adroitly ducked, losing noth

n on the same level with your feeble intelligence. I've been thinking

got killed the last time we bettered our aerial. What's the matter with the u

m out, "the hoc propter quod, the hic

his hat foll

esults in the baseball game on Saturday. But there's nothing so good that there may not be something better, and I thought it might be well to rig

as a rule was not on speaking terms

. We'll just get Jimmy here to make a frame f

e the horn. Sure! We'll just get Jimmy to make a frame. Sure! I suppose if one of us

"You'll have me crying in a minute, and it

'll have to do will be to wind it about eight times with copper wire. That will give us a lot of receivin

e the pivot,"

we probably would hear only very little or perhaps nothing at all. You see, with that kind of aerial we don't have to put up anything on the roof at all. We could have it inside the room. It could be fastened to a hook in the ceiling, so that whe

ognize in the owner of the voice Mr. Frank Brandon, the radio inspector, by whose aid they had been able t

re from all of the boys, with whom

s way?" asked Bob, after the gree

r Dale," replied Brandon. "He told me that you boys won the Ferberton prizes," he continued, addressing Bob and Joe, "and I congratulate you. I wasn't surprised, fo

agreed. "We're just crazy about it. We think it

ght. By the way, there's an interesting thing about that radio compass you were speaking about that isn't

" urged Bob, and t

ventured out to try conclusions with the British fleet that was patrolling the North Seas. In fact, it began to be thought that they never would come out. But at last the German naval leaders determined to risk a battle. They made their prepa

f efficiency and were able to listen in on the orders given by the German commanders to their vessels. The Germans hadn't any idea t

ied to look as wise as possible. Jimmy especially had such an ow

rs, that were also heard by the British. It was then found that the flagship had moved seven miles down the river from the station where she had been the night before. That showed that the fleet was on the move. Instantly the British fleet was sent out to meet them. So when the Germans came out to surpris

ped our aviator

ually pretty well up in science, but we put it all ove