The Motor Boys on the Wing

Jerry, you c

more room than you think.

of a trio of boys in a big touring car that was skimming alon

t fellow's dust," returned Jerry Hop

he car for a narrow space that showed between the load of hay and

aveled behind the load of hay so long, breathing the dust kicked up by the plodding horses, that he was tired o

smash!" predi

fe, Chunky!" ca

ay be rotten," advised Ned Slade, as he took a

. "Here's where we hit the red

e, which was none too strong, and when the auto also reached the c

hay he sent the machine to avoid hitting the bridge rail, yet so narrow was the space that the

ut!" ye

er-farther!

excited," advised Jerry

he shouts of Ned and Bob, or whether the driver unconsciously or intentionally turned toward the auto was not known. At any rate only by a rapid shifting of his course was Jerry able to avoid a collision. He screwed the wheel around to the left, and

guard on the right rear wheel scraped the nigh horse,

e th' law on you fellers!" cri

is horse," remarked

to make trouble. Otherwise he may take

he auto came to a stop just ahead of the farm wago

dismounted, whip in hand. "What rig

quick glance told him that beyond a mere scratch that had not even drawn

Man. I don't want

n' to give you some, an' then I'm

allowing your dust, and, though there were several places where you could have turned out, and let us pass, you wouldn't do it. I got tired of tooting

t back at you with a worse one for obstructing the road. That's all I've got to say to you, and you can put it in your pipe and smoke it! Hold fast, fellows, here we go!"

rain to working all h

auto fellers is gittin' wuss an' wu

ar this uncharitable wish, and it would probably hav

rked Bob, breathing easily for the first t

his number all righ

etorted the tall steersman. "We autoists don'

ng peacefully along the highway. "Now if we'd been out in our motorship Comet we shouldn't have had any

e have to take anybody's dust up

Jerry. "Especially at an aviation meet. Which reminds me that I saw something in a paper I

s it?" a

e meet is anywhere around here we might take it in." Jerry reached in his pocket, and

in. It's going to be great, and maybe

t to be?"

Colt

s Colton?"

rmolet. We stopped there onc

imed Bob. "It was there we had suc

' in it," came from Jerry, with a chuckle. "But Colton i

it," decl

-pie makes me hungry. There's a good hotel just ahead

ood time, and we might as well have it. We'll stop for

ntry town called Freedon, where they ran their car und

ed quite a few persons; farmers who had come in on business, or to sell produce, trave

-complexioned chaps, evidently used to being out of doors, and their quiet but expen

sat together, not far from the hotel clerk's desk, and sharply scrutinized every person in the lobby. Nor did our friends escape o

two men before?" asked Jerry

fleshiness was still panting from th

out you

giving his stout chum his often-used nickname. "Bu

ok at that paper. I want to read about the meet. Where did

think, for there are not likely to be many accommodatio

" exclaimed Bob in rathe

of the man nearest him, and then shifted to the face of his companion. The two men hastily glanced away, and then, as Bob, who had noticed their strange acti

rather odd. They must know

"But I don't believe I'd care to have anything to do with those chaps-esp

out this meet. If we're going we'll have to give our motorship Comet an overhauling," and

front of them were the two strange men, whose conduct had been the cause of some speculation

y as he looked at the signatures. "Couldn't

ked Bob, for Jerry had re

eh? Well, they're both dark complexioned enough to be called 'black.' However let's go in to dinner. I hope we

l my appetite," observed the st

ey were seated well away from the two odd men,