"
"Well, I guess it has its work cut out for it, all right," went on
Dick. "He will have his hands full--if it is a he--to keep us in
the procession. Alton has a crew of blacksmiths."
"So much the more weight to carry," replied Rand, who made the best
of everything.
"Not much chance for us," put in Jack.
"Oh, I don't know," returned Rand.
"'Stranger things than that have happened,' as the old woman said
when she kissed her cow."
"You mean as the man said when he married his cook," corrected
Donald.
"Well, there wasn't anything strange about that," returned Rand,
"if she was a good cook."
"Or if her cooking was good," added Jack.
"Are you ready, all?" now called the starter, and each one of
the different crews grasped his oar with quickened tension as the
coxswains responded: "Ready!" and there followed the sharp report
of the pistol.
As the report rang out the oars of the three crews, all like a
piece of accurate machinery, struck the water at the same instant
and the boats leaped forward as if shot from a spring.
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