{"product_id":"2940013902572","title":"THE AIRPLANE BOYS AMONG THE CLOUDS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.  TRYING OUT THE NEW BIPLANE\u003cbr\u003e    II.  A RESCUER FROM THE SKIES\u003cbr\u003e   III.  THE MEN IN THE TOURING CAR\u003cbr\u003e    IV.  SUSPICION\u003cbr\u003e     V.  FIGURING IT ALL OUT\u003cbr\u003e    VI.  AN UNKNOWN ENEMY\u003cbr\u003e   VII.  SEEN FROM THE EAGLES' EYRIE\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.  MYSTERIOUS MR. MARSH AT IT AGAIN\u003cbr\u003e    IX.  STARTLING NEWS OVER THE WIRE\u003cbr\u003e     X.  IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CHIEF\u003cbr\u003e    XI.  A NEW ALARM\u003cbr\u003e   XII.  SANDY DROPS SOMETHING\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.  THE CHALLENGE\u003cbr\u003e   XIV.  SOMETHING DOING\u003cbr\u003e    XV.  THE AWAKENING\u003cbr\u003e   XVI.  THE CHIEF MEETS AN OLD FRIEND\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.  GALLANT ANDY\u003cbr\u003e XVIII.  AT THE FOOT OF THE LIBERTY POLE\u003cbr\u003e   XIX.  THE MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED\u003cbr\u003e    XX.  THE RIVAL AVIATORS\u003cbr\u003e   XXI.  THE RACE WITH THE STORM\u003cbr\u003e  XXII.  A TERRIBLE MOMENT ON OLD THUNDER TOP\u003cbr\u003e XXIII.  THE BIRD BOYS' TRIUMPH--CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE AIRPLANE BOYS AMONG THE CLOUDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eor, Young Aviators in a Wreck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRYING OUT THE NEW BIPLANE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I tell you, Elephant, it's the Bird boys, and nobody else!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But they had a monoplane last summer, Larry; and you can see for\u003cbr\u003eyourself it's a biplane out yonder over the lake.  So that's why I\u003cbr\u003ethought it must be Percy Carberry and his crony, Sandy Hollingshead.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shucks! stir up your think-box, Elephant.  Get a move on your mind,\u003cbr\u003eand look back.  Don't you remember Percy lost his old biplane when he\u003cbr\u003etook that trip down to South America, and had some trouble with the\u003cbr\u003erevolutionists in Colombia?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Say, now, that's right.  You mean the time Andy Bird found his\u003cbr\u003elong-lost father, whose balloon left him a prisoner in such a queer\u003cbr\u003eway?  Yes, but tell me, where would Frank and Andy Bird get a biplane\u003cbr\u003enow?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh! rats, what ails you, Elephant?  Didn't they make the other; and\u003cbr\u003edon't you know they've been busy all winter, in that shop Old Colonel\u003cbr\u003eWhympers fitted up for them out in the field?  And not even such bully\u003cbr\u003egood friends as you and me were allowed to take a peep inside.  That's\u003cbr\u003ewhat they were working on--building this new biplane, after sending for\u003cbr\u003ethe parts.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't it just shine like fun in the sunlight, though?\" declared the\u003cbr\u003elittle \"runt,\" who had been nicknamed \"Elephant\" by his chums, possibly\u003cbr\u003ein a spirit of boyish humor, and which name had clung to him ever since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It sure does look like a spider-like craft,\" Larry Geohegan went on.\u003cbr\u003e\"Just see that white-headed eagle up in the blue sky.  I bet you he's\u003cbr\u003elooking down, and wondering what sort of thing it is.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Huh! don't you fool yourself there, Larry,\" chuckled the other.  \"That\u003cbr\u003ewise old chap knows all about aeroplanes.  He's had experience, he has.\u003cbr\u003eYou forget that last summer, when the race was on between the Bird boys\u003cbr\u003eand Percy, to see who could land on the summit of Old Thunder-Top\u003cbr\u003efirst, from an aeroplane, those same eagles had a nest up there, and\u003cbr\u003etackled the boys for a warm session.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two lads had come to a halt on the road about half a mile from the\u003cbr\u003eborders of Bloomsbury where they lived.  From where they stood, holding\u003cbr\u003etheir fishing rods, and quite a decent catch of finny prizes, they\u003cbr\u003ecould look out over the beautiful surface of Lake Sunrise, which was\u003cbr\u003eover fifteen miles long, and in places as much as three or four wide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mebbe you can tell me, Larry,\" the smaller boy presently said, \"just\u003cbr\u003ewhy Frank keeps sailing around over the lake that way?  Suppose he's\u003cbr\u003etaking pictures from his biplane?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That might be, Elephant,\" Larry answered, slowly and thoughtfully.\u003cbr\u003e\"Seems to me I did hear somebody talking about the State wanting to get\u003cbr\u003ea map of the lake, with all its many coves and points.  But ain't it\u003cbr\u003emore dangerous for aviators hanging over water than the shore?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That depends,\" remarked the other boy, whose real name was Fennimore\u003cbr\u003eCooper Small, and who was rather apt to have an exalted idea of his own\u003cbr\u003eimportance, as do so many undersized people.  \"If a fellow dropped out\u003cbr\u003eof his machine when he was even fifty feet high, he'd be apt to break\u003cbr\u003ehis neck, or anyhow a leg, if he struck on the land; but in the water\u003cbr\u003ehe might have a show.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Look at 'em circling round and round, would you?\" Larry went on, his\u003cbr\u003ecuriosity climbing toward the fever stage.  \"I'd give a fit now to know\u003cbr\u003ewhat Frank's got in that wise old noddle of his.  He ain't the one to\u003cbr\u003edo things for nothing, take it from me, Elephant.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070578049264,"sku":"2940013902572","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013902572_p0.jpg?v=1763596926","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013902572","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}