262 Tommy Twisters Discovery

ark with. The jam was quickly shot into
the hold, sending up a tremendous cloud of
fragrant steam.

“We mustn’t let the heat out,” cried
Tommy. ‘Be quick and help me put on
the hatches—that’s it.”

The jam was completely boxed in now so
that no more steam escaped, for Tommy
had carefully prepared for that.

Then away they went down the big river,
on the stream.

People on the bank stopped to admire the
ark as it floated gracefully down, for it had
a very gay and beautiful effect with its pretty
red roof painted to represent tiles and so
make it look as much like Noah’s own ark
as possible. Its sides were white, with
windows painted on them in blue; though
whether these had really been copied directly
from Noah’s ark itself, or whether the artist
had only done them from hearsay, I do not
know; though they might be able to tell you
at the Lowther Arcade. There were no real
windows, because these would have let out the
heat ; and the idea was to keep the heat in.