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The Rover Boys in Business - Or, The search for the missing bonds by Edward Stratemeyer
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"Atlantic City!" exclaimed Tom. "Of course, you are not going in
bathing?"

"To be sure I am! I have a brand new bathing suit ordered. It is dark
blue, with pin stripes running----"

"But see here, Billy! If you go in bathing at Atlantic City this
season, you'll be chewed up."

"What do you mean?" And now the dudish student seemed interested.

"Haven't you heard about the sea serpents they have seen at Atlantic
City?" demanded Tom,-- "four or five of them." And he poked Sam, who
sat beside him, in the ribs; and also winked at Spud, who was in the
seat with William Philander.

"That's right, Tubbs," put in Sam. "Why, they say some of those sea
serpents are twenty feet long."

"Oh, yes, I heard about them, too," added Spud, and now he braced
himself for one of his usual yarns. "Why, they tell me that one
afternoon the sea serpents came in so thickly among the bathers that
it was hard for them-- I mean those in bathing-- to tell which was
sand and which was serpents. Some of the serpents crawled up on the
boardwalk, and even got into some of the stores and hotels. They had
to order out the police, and then the fire department, and, finally,
some of the soldiers had to come down from the rifle ranges with a
Gatling gun. You never heard of such a battle! Somebody said they
killed as many as ninety-seven sea serpents, and not less than three
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