"Yes, I believe the earth does pass through the greatest showers
of meteors in August, but then there are lots of them loose at any
time. I've read of some remarkable ones being dug out of the earth
in various places. If this should prove to be a big meteor and we
could find where it struck, it would be a feather in the caps of
the scouts. Some old professor would be hustling up this way as
soon as we let them know at Yale or Harvard."
"Then we'll try to find where it struck!" declared Ralph.
"It would be as bad as hunting for a needle in a haystack in all
this big wilderness," ventured Bud; "though there'd be no harm in
our trying,---that is, if I'm in any shape to go with you after I've
had my little innings."
Again did Ralph wear a puzzled frown as he heard Bud make this
significant remark. He must have wondered more than ever what it
could possibly be that the other had conceived this time. On other
occasions his efforts, while ambitious, had ended in smoke, and the
rest of the boys often quizzed poor Bud most unmercifully on account
of his shortcomings. But then, all great inventors must make a
beginning. It is not expected that genius can take the saddle at
one bound.
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