The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf by Captain Quincy [pseud.] Allen
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up with pneumonia ever since!"
"Poor chap! That's awful!" declared Bluff. "But that isn't the worst by any means, from our standpoint, boys. His doctor has strictly forbidden him to take that voyage this winter and is sending him off with his tutor to some baths in Southern Europe or some old place where he may recover his strength." The three boys groaned in concert. "A rough deal all around," said Jerry. "What a disappointment it must have been, and he with his heart set on the trip!" exclaimed Will. "But they tell us that 'it's a poor wind that blows nobody good.' So he has written me this letter, making a proposal," went on Frank, calmly. "What!" shouted Jerry, clutching the arm of his chum. "Oh! he hates to leave his fine, dandy little launch there at that town, where there is really no accommodation for her, and would like to have some one take her over the course to Cedar Keys, Florida, to put her up with a boat builder he knows. And so he wrote to me," continued Frank. "Do you mean he has asked you to go down there and take that boat, just as he intended doing?" gasped Bluff. "Yes, only that instead of taking two months loitering along I could do |
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