Around the World in Ten Days

rby around the world takes p

ing, Paul. The plans have just been completed. H

newsie just ahead of us who is calling out the Dail

in there sur

ng to get a c

Institute along with a noisy throng of other students, paused when they reached the newsboy in questio

the purchaser. "Let's hurry up a bit, Bob; I'm so eager to see what it says about that Derby that I can ha

t a man named Mears made the circuit in thirty-five days about seven years ago, an

s been crossed by Alcock and Brown in a Vimy-Vickers biplane, and also by our NC-4 flying-boat under the command of Lieutenant Read, and

d it seem

rry sufficient gasolin

about the

since Harry Hawker and his partner, Grieve, made their unsuccessful attempt last spring to cross the Atlantic in a Sopwith machine, and for my

storm, and then we can see what the paper says about i

e a splendid-looking pair of young Americans, probably about eighteen years old, and the manner in which they swung along through the disagreeable drizzle, paying scant attent

ing a basket of fruit. She was staggered by the collision; her basket was knocked from her arm, and the oranges began to roll in every direction. The child broke into tears, but

at swarthy-faced chap used that li

gnant answer. "That lazy dog ought to b

, and tucked them back in their owner's basket. Then, with her g

ne a few steps, P

n the same run as my brother John, but was discharged for drunkenness. Since that he has bla

wns along the picturesque Hudson. They were just in time to catch a train, and found a comfortable seat in a rear coach. Then Paul brought

nts must be at least twenty-one years of age, and furnish an entrance fee of two hundred dollars. They might use any type of aircraft they chose, and could carry as many assistants as they wished, even utilizing trains or steamships, if not less than three-fourths of their journey were made by air; and they must stop at least once in each of four continents, and

ed Bob Giddings. "Paul, old ma

and shook his head. "I surely would like to," said he, "

need a machine

to enter-something I don't happen to have, and something I know mother can't spare

dmitted Bob. "That second handicap might be overcome wit

aul; "but, as you state, the other drawbacks cannot be swept aside so easily. Perhaps later on

sistant," declared his friend. "Nothing would please m

ur spare time, and for the past two months I have been busy making a three-foot model of this. I hope to finish it in a day or

ere known all over the State of New York as makers of the best-flying model airplanes to be found anywhere. Ever since they were small boys in grammar school, the brothers had been constructing miniature monoplanes, biplanes, and seaplanes, which they had pitted against the best product of o

im in the flying. Thrown together by their mutual love for mechanics, and being in the same classes all through high-school, Paul and Bob had formed a strong attachment for each other, although the latter's home was far more pret

so developed, as well as his skill in constructing and flying model airplanes. Some of these recent ones were so novel in design and of such wonderfully ingenious workmanship, that John, who had won unusual honors as an aviator on the French front, was quite thunderstruck, and determined to encourage Paul's talents in this li

lectrical engineer. Thus both boys continued to be thrown in daily contact. It was their habit to go into the city to school

ds were: "Don't forget to get that new model airp

nce; "but remember to keep this under your

me," sa