Tommy Twister’s Discovery 261

“But they'll miss me, and think I’m
drowned,” said Billy doubtfully.

‘Leave a note to say you will be back to
tea,” said Tommy.

“Right you are!” said Billy. ‘How you
do think of things! Won't it be cold at the
North Pole? Hadn't I better go and fetch
my comforter?”

“Oh, that’s all right,” said Tommy; “1
know how to keep us warm—you'll see!
But you'll want a few things. You ought to
have an extra pair of socks, and a pen-
knife—and, I say!” (Billy was hurrying
off to fetch the things.) “I say—you
might bring your stamp-album and ‘Jack
Sheppard.’”

Billy soon returned with these necessaries,
and they shoved off again. Presently they
emerged from the little stream on to the big
river ; and in twenty minutes or so they had
hauled up alongside Tommy’s father’s jam-
factory.

The foreman had been told about the
affair and expected them, and had a cargo
of boiling jam ready to load the hold of the