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 over, leaving in its wake a chain of rapidly succeeding flaws.

"Look here, boys," insisted the man, after his weather wisdom was sufficiently satisfied, "all danger of our doing the Noah's ark stunt is over. Hardy and Company are snug in bed and the yacht's in port. Off to bed with you."

"Say, just one more thing," pleaded Jimmy. "Before we go, tell us how people first got hold of the flying idea. Come across."

"Well, of all the—" yawned Turner and then conceded. "All right. I'll give you about ten minutes' dope on that, and then I'm sealed and soldered. Get me?"

Jimmy and Cat got him.

"As to the flying idea," proceeded the host, "I reckon dreams started it. There's no dream more common than the one in which you think you are flying or gliding through the air, and it's a pretty keen sensation." Cat and Jimmy hastened to recount some of their own experiences in this line, but Turner, mindful of his time limit, was quick to cut them off.

"Then, when folks got to thinking about