Ralph Henry Barbour

Name: Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

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“Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened”, published in 1908, is a work by Ralph Henry Barbour. It explores elements such as launch, Chub and gasolene.

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ We are about to place another star in the galaxy which—which has for generations upheld the supremacy of the American nation at home and abroad, by land and by sea, in peace and in war!”
The applause was almost deafening, largely due to the fact that Roy had one arm around Dick’s shoulders and was clapping his hands within three inches of his nose. On the other side Chub shouted “Bravo!” into his ear, while at his feet, so to speak, Harry had let go of the launch that she might have both hands to applaud with and was now squirming undignifiedly across the gunwale trying to reach it again. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ Ladies and gentlemen, we are wonderfully privileged. Generations hence posterity will look back with reverential awe upon this—this grand occasion!”
“Oh, that’s beautiful, Chub!” cried Harry. Chub faltered.
“Er—er—and so I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart for the honor which you have seen fit to confer upon me. I thank you, I thank you.” Chub bowed to three points of the compass and the launch rocked uncomfortably. “And now, ladies and gentlemen, according to time-honored precedent, a bottle of—er—of gasolene will be broken over the bow and the boat will be named. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ This is indeed a suspicious—I should say auspicious occasion. Never before, possibly, since the founding of our glorious Republic has so much intelligence, so much worth, so much beauty been met together as I see before me. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ Dick looked triumphantly at Chub. For once Chub had nothing to say. Presently Dick observed:
“What I don’t understand is why she wouldn’t start at the wharf. We flooded the carbureter dozens of times then.”
“Maybe that was the trouble,” was the reply. “Your engine was stiff and cold and you got too much gasolene into it. That’s just as bad as getting none at all. You’ve got to have the proper mixture of air and gasolene, you know. After you’d turned her over awhile you worked the gasolene out and she started. It’s a good plan to have a small oil-can with some gasolene in it. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ Dick replied.
“Well, he got stuck! Look at it!”
At some time, probably a good many years before, the Minerva had been new and trim. To-day she was a veritable apology for a boat. Some twenty feet long, she was blunt of nose, wide of beam, almost guiltless of paint. The cockpit was only large enough to hold one man and allow the tiller to swing, the rest of the deck space being occupied by a cabin. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ By this time the launch had passed Lookout, having practically completed the circuit of the island, and Dick turned off the switch and stopped the engine. The launch floated softly into the smooth water of Victory Cove and Dick turned its nose to the beach. Then, with a little grating sound the bow slid up on the sand and Roy, painter in hand, jumped ashore.
“That rope belongs to the fellow at the wharf, by the way,” said Dick. “I must take it back to him. I’ll have to get some rope of my own. And I need some tools, and an oil-can, and an anchor and lots of things!”
“How about an engineer?” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ All it needs is just a tap to tighten it. There! Didn’t you try to flood your carbureter?”
“No,” answered Dick a trifle sheepishly. “We forgot it the last time.”
“If you had you’d have seen where the trouble was, because she wouldn’t have flooded. Now let’s see.”
One turn and the engine started. Billy retarded the spark until he saw that the Minerva was following all right, and then pushed the lever in. The launch gathered speed and in a moment was cutting through the water in a way that brought an admiring ejaculation from even Chub. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 11. The Launch is Christened (1908)

“ That’ll start her all right.”
For the next few minutes Dick took a short course in gas-engine operating and by the time he had asked all the questions he wanted to they were approaching the Ferry Hill landing and a disconsolate figure in the shade of the boat-house.
“There’s Harry,” said Chub. “I’ll bet she’s mad!”
But she wasn’t; only grieved and reproachful until they told their troubles to her, and after that vastly interested and sympathetic. Harry, having just become a passenger, was by no means ready to end the cruise, demanding that the launch should go up the river for a way. ”

Ralph Henry Barbour

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