Teddy and Dick did not answer. They were running after their planes. Then, Dick’s began to falter. Teddy’s was sailing on full and fast. It rose on a long slant.

“Say! I believe Teddy’s plane will reach the woods!” cried Joe. He had picked up his craft from the grass.

“Well, it’s going better than I thought it would,” Dick had to admit.

Then came a puff of wind. That and the power in Teddy’s plane sent it more swiftly toward the woods. Dick’s plane, having reached the limit of its flight, began coming down.

12 “Teddy wins!” cried Joe.

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“Yes! But look! His plane is sailing right into the woods!” cried Dick. “You’ve done it, Teddy! I didn’t think you could, but you did. There goes your plane into the woods!”

“I wish it hadn’t!” cried Teddy, running after it.

“Why?” asked Joe.

“Because I think it will be lost. It went in the woods right near that deep gully. I guess my plane is lost, fellows!”

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CHAPTER II FOUND

FOUND

Reaching an open glade in the meadow, where the grass was shorter than in other places, Dick and Joe put down the planes they had been carrying.

Reaching

“I guess they’ll be all right,” said Dick.

“Why are you leaving your planes there?” asked Teddy, looking back over his shoulder as he headed toward the gully in the woods.

“So they won’t get all banged up on trees and bushes when we help you hunt for yours,” Joe answered.

“If we carried them through the woods there wouldn’t be much left of ’em,” added Dick.

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