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just hop on a rain and shoot”’ exactly” laughed his uncle leave the Aruwimi we’ll we takb s Trandrivj beiii'ers 'Ci B ffl ' It w K3M to me'1’ declared thought that it’s not question that we blank wilderness can decide on the spur of the moment” III tilled with gorillas and Seems savages announced Mrs St John We’ll talk to remember something it me about George If over conditions are as The Decision game laws in Roosevelt’s book How you say perhaps—” about that?” R1TCH!” shouted Burt "Hurray!” unable although burst out her mother seemed son to "There are stringent laws In Uganda enough restrain his "You’ve got to give in dad! amazeinent His give us and British "Now your proposition East Africa” replied Mr Mother’s on our parents looked equally incredulous side!” And Burt Geoige" said his father as they settled V I3CC "But intend to depend and Mr Wallace explained down around the table find his chum "What's your on trade definite idea about it?" more than on shooting Tor feet that vi th smile you’ve won over Mr Now look at this Makuu "Good! my ivory Cntchheld Howard Now we’re getting down to my counts a good Yes Critchfield deal" You see river that runs St cases!" cried the explorer with a smile west up north of the smhed Mr like John as the door slkm-t to bring back sdine skins and at his Aruwimi Aruwimi I’m not going to sister take med ‘He’s & "Burt get us that large any solid tinngs but detest the beastly work of chances oj being held at atlas over there” up Boma ‘VdT b£s desT Burt had the atlas realy think ttiiig in There There are several might do Burt them off and putting on the table instant "Let’s after getting out good” them m an trading companies who’d be tickled So when found that Critch here Get around Burt found his chum in nape we are state or to death to let me bring out a bunch here high slouch at taxidermy and only folks!” As he spoke Mr Wallace excitement Critch’s was no of father had ivory pulled and then rob me of it at the just needed the chance to ine to out a pencil and pointed told him about Mr occurred Wallace’s to last minute hte the mouth of the Congo river So we’re going right up proposal and lake him along father his qualified saw about to own the Makua and down that river to and proposed to pay all his 'Here’s the mouth of the Congo expenses the rench Congo and small salary you see Here we step aboard one of I’ve got a mighty to think Mr Critchfield over some little strong pull with a the state steamers the rench people mordj h© had said ame around after He These are about "It’s too big to saw like ever since they hat would be a splendid education the steamers plying between made me a commander rush into blindly New As stands howof York the Legion of or the boy— would give him a knowledge and Boston ollowing' the Honor for my Sahara L ee no reason whv of Congo up and around for twelve hundred explorations” you the world and would develon an make tc little money amazingly” miles "I see” Burt’s father gazed at? the besides him roughly speaking we come getting the trip” to ’Why didn't Critch tell me the map reflectively then looked up with a about it?” Aruwimi river Up thia— and Burt and Critch got an atlas and ried Burt indignantly here Yambuya of sudden smile "You say ‘we’ as if it we are at the head went over the route that Mr Wallace all He didn't know!” laughed his uncle navigation on the was settled George!” Aruwimi When Burt rom reported all His father and agreed that we’d let tn kAnl "Oh was talking about voumr Jhat his 0fl uncle had said about clvtllza-’ :m Critchfield tYiUrax&lf get ‘safely through school without for three or four hundred mites furIn and n1 myself avY Critch heaved g° other things to having think of Now inpr than oinihrt VU ‘fVmA wbM deep righ explorer "uome now Etta doesn’t at aiACt ClCpUflJJU5 it the tiling in sound whole lot oek sensibly you folks But how do you get down there "Seems ’most to be reasonable too good true We wouldn’t be away longer the first place?” than did at flnrt?" more he than six asked Mr St John said "To of think us away over months at most Burt would be in far who seemed keenly Interested "Yes" admitted his sister "I see wlere your usicle in his ’Any Especially if is all to more danger canoe on the Kennebec way you Want to!” returned so going clear up much coin though in than a big the explorer "There lines civilized It steamer on the are as you say” must cost like smoke” to Congo” Banana Point or Boma the Mr "Nowthe look here" Wallace "So dotes ivory” grinned Burt Ila"But after you leave the steamer? capital from Antwerp Lisbon map again and traced down m high spirits that there YToucan't shoot ivory from the boat Hamburg from England the Congo to Stanley falls actually seemed to be now or "a of St some hope presume” protested Mr We’ll to his John probably from England runs from here the Great go over taking the trip "He ain’t worried at "And what about snakes and savage though” Lakes Mahagi the Albert about the money Say I’m mighty ribes?” put in his wife gracious! said Burt's mother Nyanza The Great onLakes are all "My glad ve been learning rench! It’ll T dear Etta” replied the explorer had idea that the Congo so connected and have in "My no was steamer lines handy " on come down there" all patiently “we will be near few savage civilization that! them so that you can get on a train near as Are "You won’t have auy pleasure tour’’ might almost say that there tribes there real launches away there in the west up or boat at coast and travel put m Mr Critchfield quietlj "Mr of tile are none As forSnakes I’ve the heart Africa?” JrtsM thrVus o seen eaat coast just Wallace business means told mo-L three deadly ones in all the years "Launches? like going from only Automobiles probably!” New York to Duluth meant to leave the whole matter Africa After W© leave laughed her husband I’ve spent In Get me?” of skins and heads to you fwa Hurt chum s CHAPTER C Mr "1 John Africa was St Central a a i " I excitedly anxious ell dwtp(t I a -Pl® i (1 level-headed I 1 I It HKI1 HHII fee-Africa— a it I ---Y 'L con-have it a it it it y T 1-V I I 111 : ’ - f9 — -- a " it mustdoea’ g it running Bordeaux I lsfl b bentVer sa -was railroad Ba I hNMK 7 - e I gamlM £ ’---He -he ( 1 —4 - ' 4 -1 'x ‘ i k4u’'' ' --" ’ ' -3 4jr±R i " T”‘ ‘ rfL y T"'-‘ ' - - ! ‘- - -- - ' --x-— 4-j- - -— " — —— — i4 - IS Hi Sfisns |