"The first time I saw you it was in overalls. Dress doesn't make aboy. I believe you'd look all right in anything. But I'd like to seethe boat now, Jack, and not wait till to-morrow."

"Well, I don't mind showing her to you, Dick, so if you will get outyour runabout we'll go down and I'll give you a trip on the river."

"To be sure I will," said in reply Percival eagerly. "Come along."

CHAPTER II

TRYING 0UT THE NEW B0AT

In half an hour the two boys were at the wharf of the machine shop,and Jack was showing his quite new acquisition to Percival, whose delightcould hardly be expressed in words.