"Tom's done the trick!" yelled Ned, paying little attention now
to the big airship shed, since he saw that the danger was about
over.

"Dhat's what he suah hab done!" agreed Eradicate. "Mah ole mule
Boomerang couldn't 'a' done any better."

"Huh! Your mule afraid of fire," remarked Koku.

"What's dat? Mah mule afraid ob fire?" cried the colored man.
"Look heah, yo' great, big, overgrowed specimen ob an equilateral
quadruped, I'll hab yo' all understand dat when yo' all speaks
dat way about a friend ob mine dat yo'--"

"That'll do, Rad!" broke in Ned, with a laugh. He knew that
when Tom's helper grew excited on the subject of his mule there
was no Stopping him, and Boomerang was a point on which Eradicate
and Koku were always arguing. "The fire is under control now."

"Yes, it seems to have gone visiting," observed Koku.

"Visiting?" queried Ned, in some surprise.

"Yes, that is, it is going out," went on Koku.

"Oh, I understand!" laughed Ned. "Yes, and I hope it doesn't
pay us another visit soon. Oh, look at Tom, would you!" he cried,
for the young aviator had swung his ship about over the flames,
to bring another row of sand bags directly above a place where