THE BOY SCOUT AVIATORS

BY GEORGE DURSTON



CHAPTER I


SERIOUS NEWS


"As long as I can't be at home," said Harry Fleming, "I'd rather
be here than anywhere in the world I can think of !"

"Rather!" said his companion, Dick Mercer. "I say, Harry, it must
be funny to be an American!"

Harry laughed heartily.

"I'd be angry, Dick," he said, finally, "if that wasn't so English
-- and so funny! Still, I suppose that's one reason you
Britishers are as big an empire as you are. You think it's sort
of funny and a bit of a misfortune, don't you, to be anything but
English ?"

"Oh, I say, I didn't quite mean that," said Dick, flushing a
little. "And of course you Americans aren't just like foreigners.
You speak the same language we do - though you do say some funny
things now and then, old chap. You know, I was ever so surprised