ing to get a grip with his fat legs on the foliage of the outer branches

me he was changing his position in the tree with all possible haste

!" cried Landy, who was really alarmed and unde

h a loop in it, I could l

can't hold out much longer. I'm no Elmer as a gymnast. I'm slipping right now, I tell

to them almost piteously. But who could reach him there? On the very outer edge of the big tree, with the ground

tance. Landy was not like agile Lil Artha, or some other members of the troop. His weight made

dy!" yelled Ted, even neglecting

er termed it, though what that sort of animal would be doin

success was very small. And so he followed Ted down the tree, slipping from limb to limb with the agility that some bo

to help me, boys?" wailed the one whose legs swung back and forth like a couple of pendulums, a

e longer. And there's Elmer jumped off his bicycle; and he's already raising i

in the tree, unable to lend a helping hand,

up the situation; and even while those in the tree were shouting back and forth, and before they could g

h a readiness that told of long familiarity with ladders; for one not accustomed to such thing

ree, alongside the hanging boy. Elmer himself flew up the rounds, for he feared that Landy, always

nd to the outer side of the leaning ladder. Utterly exhausted by the strain he had been u

il he reached the bottom round. He was no long

though it were his acknowledged right. "He's only getting the reaction now. I'll f

noticed that from that moment the fat boy showed great caution

-awake young fellow, whose year out on a Canadian ranch belonging to an un

Jasper, assuming a little

That struck me as interesting, and so, wanting to know more, I just wheeled around, and was coming in through the back gate to the garden when the l

ner in the troop might be. A lot of names were mentioned, including my own. Then there were Red, Lil

?" asked Elmer, his fa

d on their wheels, kind of superintend things by keeping tabs along the line. The contestant comi

been deliberating over the scheme for some little time, and only sprang

trike you, El

opinion, Mr. Thcout

you'll all come around to my house. I'll get a lot of the other boys on the phone. I was thinking this mor

leased because his little scheme had met with such instant appro

ng what we might do to stir things up a little. With school opening just two weeks off, we want

ng to have a walkover, and others hold different opinions. Of course we all know you're bound to be shut out, on account of that sore foot of yours. An

of you. But I must be going, fellows, as I was on an errand, and just ran around here to see how you were getting on. Better

'd been nearly pulled out of their sockets. Gee, but nobody can understand just how it feels to be hanging twenty feet up, on the outside branches of a

ppin of the lot if you went down that ti

ndy; but he did not take the jibes of his comrade

ked up his wheel, which he had hastily thrown aside at the moment he dis

akes to beat the Dutch?" asked Landy, who had never forgotten the treat set be

I left home," called back Elmer; just as if he hadn't asked her to do

to ask somebody to raise the cake to my mouth. Yum, yum; that was the finest thing that e

, as he passed out of the rear gate, mounted on

basket after basket was added to it. And the conversation between the five lads cove

. You see, my dad expected to show some of these at the fair next week, if they turned out as well as they looked from the g

t down on my little cable here, you'll find them the mates of the ones you d

y," remarked Landy. "And for that y

because he acted like he meant to gobble every extra good one that came along. I've counted about a do

le to take in the house, before Ty starts at full speed," and Landy

pple that could be reached was bagged. Then the game was declared off, and Landy invit

ouse, I suppose?" remarked Ty as, with Ted

Landy, laughing at the speaker, as he recalled to mind the

ides, I've got a hunch that the Fairfield troop are figuring on a long hike, to try out their best fellows. I'd like to se

er, anyhow," remarked Chatz, who really had no small nature, and could se

tly, they left Landy, head