The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize by Allen [pseud.] Chapman
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whose, furtive eyes carried in them a suggestion of treachery and
sneakiness. "What's the joke, Buck?" asked Bob coldly, as he looked from one to the other of the sniggering faces. "You're the joke," answered Buck insolently; "that is, if you believe all that stuff I heard you pulling off just now. You must be easy if you fall for that." "I wasn't talking to you," replied Bob, restraining himself with some difficulty. "But since you've butted in, perhaps you'll tell me just what it is that's so funny about the wireless telephone." "The whole thing is bunk, if you ask me," replied Buck with the confidence that so often goes with ignorance. "Telephoning without wires! You might as well talk of walking without legs." This argument seemed to him so overpowering that he swelled out his chest and looked triumphantly at his two companions, whose faces instantly took on the same expression. "You made a ten strike that time, Buck," declared Lutz, clapping him on the shoulder. "Hit the target right in the bull's-eye," chimed in Terry, with a smirk. Bob and Joe and Jimmy looked at each other, and, despite their resentment, had all they could do to keep from breaking into laughter. |
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