The Hilltop Boys on the River
Cyril Burleigh
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 20, 2014)
"If you are going with the boys on the river, Jack, you will have to get a motor-boat. Won't you let me buy you one?" "No, not a bit of it, Dick." "But you want one?" "Certainly, and I am going to have one." "But motor-boats cost money, Jack. Why, mine cost meββ-" "Never mind what it cost, Dick. You spend a lot more money than I can afford to spend, and you have a gilt-edged affair, of course. I want a boat to use as well as to look at." "But you want a serviceable boat, Jack?" "I am going to have it, and it will not cost me anything like what your boat cost. Just let me look around a bit, Dick." "All right, I'll let you do all the looking you want, but I'd like to buy you a boat just the same."