258 Tommy Twister’s Discovery

quietly into the stream, and jumped aboard ;
but when the ark had fairly started down the
stream he burst into tears at the thought of
the home he had left behind, and his mother,
and two apples which he had forgotten to
bring.

He had a great secret—a plan for keeping
warm at the North Pole—which he had not
said a word about to anybody, even his father :
for he knew how things w2// leak out; and
he was afraid of Doctor Nansen or some one
finding out his secret and making use of it.

As the ark turned a bend in the stream
whom should Tommy see on the bank but
Billy Bunson, a school chum of his. It hap-
pened that Billy had got up early too, to fish.

‘Hullo, Tommy Twister!” called Billy.
“Where are you off to?”

Tommy felt angry at first at being found
out; but it then occurred to him that Billy
was a good sort, and that it might be lonely
for one at the North Pole; so he stopped the
ark and said—

“Vm going to find the North Pole.
Come on!”