THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS
AND THE FLOOD
CHAPTER I
A LONG-DISTANCE CALL
"Say, this looks bad, Joe! It sure does!"
"What's that, Blake? Must be quite serious, to make you sit up and take notice."
"It is! Look at the scare head!" and the speaker held out, for the inspection of his companion, a newspaper the front page of which fairly bristled with black type.
They were two youths, sitting under a cherry tree, on the green grass of a lawn which fronted a farmhouse. They were evidently taking their ease, or had been, for there were comfortable chairs near them, two hammocks, and a pile of magazines, while on a board seat, built into a crotch of the cherry tree, was a large pitcher of lemonade. And if that doesn't show comfort on a warm, sunny June day I don't know what does.
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