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Title: The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Payson, Howard Wrenn, Charles L
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Publisher: New York : Burt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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you think of it? heasked with a smile. Its g-g-great, rejoined Tubby, with a not-able lack of his usual assurance. 122 THE BOY SCOUTS FOR UJiTCLE SAM And now I suppose youd like to see what thebottom of the sea looks like. We are down sometwo hundred fathoms and about fifty miles offthe coast. Should you care to see how thingslook down here?* How will that be possible? asked Merritt. By way of reply Mr. Barr went to the star-board wall of the cabin and pulled a lever con-necting with a worm gear. As he did so, a greatsection of the Peacemakers steel side drew backand revealed a plate glass window set betweenthe inner and outer skins of the craft. The boys crowded round the window andpeered out eagerly. But to their disappointmentthey could see no more of their surroundingsthan if they had been looking out of a train win-dow on a dark night. It was as black as a wolfsmouth at those unknown depths. Why, we cant see anything, came a dis-gruntled chorus. Wait a minute, smiled the inventon
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•CJyr^s U \/r«n<^ THE BOYS CROWDED ROUND THE WINDOW AND PEERED OUT EAGERLY. THE NEW TOIIKPUBLIC IIRRARY JISTOR. LENAX AW FACING DEATH 123 Pressing a button, he extinguished the cabinlights. Then he opened a sort of closet in thewall alongside the window and swung out apowerful, though small, searchlight attached toan adaptable arm in the same manner as a desktelephone. There v/as a clicking sound, and a flood ofwhite light pierced the blackness outside. Theboys broke into delighted exclamations as thepowerful rays revealed all sorts of fish, many ofodd shapes and colors, attracted by the light Suddenly a dark, shadowy form swung intoview. Instantly the other fish vanished, and theboys saw that the newcomer was a large sharkswimming leisurely along. No doubt he wondered who the strangers inhis deep sea abode could be, for he swam upclose to the window, causing the boys to shrinkback. They quite forgot that between them andthe tiger of the deep was a soHd plate of glasjaas strong

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