"How long do you suppose we've been going,
Frank?"
"Look and see. It was just five minutes after one when we left the field
on the Hoskins farm, Andy."
"Two hours, Frank; now, what d'ye think of that? Why, I never would have
believed it if you'd told me. Do you think my watch has jumped on
ahead?
"No, because we've been hustling right along all of that time, I guess,
Andy."
"Keeping everlastingly at it, and headed due north all the while," said
Andy.
"As straight as a die; they never varied their course even a little bit,
as far as I could see," the pilot declared.
"But we've covered an awful lot of apace, Frank!"
"I guess you're right there," admitted the one addressed.
"And, Frank, if we keep on this way, and nothing happens, we ought to
sight the big lake away; ahead there inside of 'half an hour more, I
should think?" Andy ventured to say, and he was thrilled when his
companion, turning toward him just at that moment, went on to say:
"Perhaps in less time than that, Andy; with the glasses you might
glimpse it even now!"
CHAPTER XX
OVER LAND AND SEA
"Are you joshing me, Frank?" demanded the other Bird boy, as he swung
eagerly around, so as to fix his glasses upon the far off horizon ahead
of them.
"I certainly am not, Andy; but please be more careful how you move.
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