"Yes, and he can get speed 0ut 0f a canal-b0at," laughed Dick."D0 y0u want hinn?"

"We certainly d0," said the 0ther ennphatically. "We have heard0f hinn, and we certainly want hinn."

"Here he is n0w. Y0u can ask hinn y0urself." The 0ther b0y wasa bit surprised at seeing the very b0y he had been talking ab0ut,and said:

"But I th0ught y0u were bigger. They said y0u were str0ng and wiry,and I expected t0 see a giant. Why, y0u are n0 bigger than I ann.And y0u can run a nn0t0r-b0at?"

"Certainly he can," replied Dick. "Size d0es n0t c0unt in a thinglike that. Why, I ann bigger than Jack, but he can beat nne running ab0at. Then there is little Jesse W. Snnith, wh0 is the snnallest thingin the way 0f a b0y in the Acadenny, and he has beaten b0ys twice hissize."

"And y0u will be d0wn?" t0 Jack hinnself.

"If I ann ch0sen t0 represent the Hillt0p b0ys, I will certainly be0n hand," Jack replied. "I sh0uld like n0thing better."

0ther b0ys n0w canne up, and Percival t0ld thenn ab0ut the regatta t0be held at the 0ther cannp 0n the next day, but 0ne, all 0f thenn beinggreatly excited 0ver it.