"What's the matter with Whopper spinning one of his outrageous yarns?"
suggested Snap. "He must be fairly aching to tell something
marvelous."

"I tell only truthful tales," came from the storyteller modestly. "Now,
if you want to hear-----"

"Truthful tales!" burst out Giant. "Say, Whopper, that's the very
biggest whopper you ever told!"

"All right, then, I won't tell any stories," returned the other lad
reproachfully.

"Oh, yes, you will; you can't help it," said Snap.

Supper was soon served. It consisted of bread and butter and coffee
and pickerel done to a turn, topped off with some crullers from a
bagful donated by Mrs. Caslette. The boys took their time eating,
and when they had finished the bones of the fish were picked clean.
Then Giant said something about a train falling off a bridge, and
that started Whopper to telling a most marvelous story of an
engineer who, seeing that a bridge was down, put on all speed
and rushed his train over a gap thirty feet wide in safety.
The others listened with sober faces until Whopper had finished,
and then burst out laughing.

"What did I tell you?" cried Snap. "I said Whopper couldn't help
telling a yarn."