The Boy Scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition by Howard Payson

Author:Howard Payson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620134900
Publisher: Duke Classics

Chapter XIV - Four Scouts in the Whirl

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"Come on, let's join them," suggested Rob, as he led the way over to where Andy Bowles and the stout youth had started to shaking hands as though they never meant to stop, chattering away like a pair of magpies, and utterly unmindful of the fact that others aboard the car were shrieking aloud with growing fear.

But as it happened just then, whatever may have been the cause for the sudden stoppage of the car suspended in midair, the trouble seemed to have been rectified; for even as Rob led Hiram over to the other pair of Hampton boys, the upward passage was resumed as smoothly as though nothing had occurred.

"Well, well! if this isn't the biggest surprise ever!" Tubby exclaimed as he seized upon a hand of each of the two newcomers, and then looked around just as if he had begun to believe the whole of Hampton Troop of Boy Scouts must have come on to take in the sights of the big show.

"Only three of us, Tubby," Rob told him. "We consider ourselves the luckiest scouts in the whole U. S. A. to get a chance to make this side of the slope. Of course we knew you were out here somewhere, but you might as well hunt for a needle in a haystack as to think to find anyone in this mob."

"But tell me, won't you, please, how did you make it?" asked Tubby, whose round, rosy face seemed redder than ever under all this excitement.

"Wait till we get down out of this high box," said Hiram. "We came up here on purpose to get the grand view, you know. Besides, there are too many ears around for my private business to be talked over."

"Whew!" said Tubby, surveying the speaker with more respect than he had ever before felt toward Hiram, whose many attempts to invent wonderful things had never been taken seriously by his companions.

"But Hiram is right," said Rob. "We'll only be up here a short while, so let's use our eyes the best we can. It's well worth coming a long way just to get such a panoramic view of the City, Bay and Fair."

"Panoramic—whew!" whistled Andy; "but I guess that covers the ground as well as any word you could scare up, Rob; for it is a panorama a whole lot better'n any I ever saw painted on canvas, like the Battle of Gettysburg and such."

They remained at their several posts drinking in the wonderful features of the magnificent view until finally the machinery was set in motion again, and they found themselves being gradually lowered toward the ground. The buildings lost their squatty appearance, the moving throngs of human beings ceased resembling crawling flies, and finally the four boys issued from the cage satisfied that they had experienced a sensation worth while.

"Now, let's sit down here in the shade for a little while, where we can talk," suggested Tubby Hopkins, who had been one

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