I've never had hydrophobia, but I've a strong notion that it wouldn't be pleasant.

I know just how you fellows feel.

You hate to lose your fun." "We do hate to lose our fun," agreed Darry.
"And yet you don't want to have an encounter with a dog that has hydrophobia." "We don't," approved Tom Reade.

"Dick, you have a truly wonderful intellect when it comes to successful guessing." "There's a cloud of dust up the road to the west," discovered Greg Holmes.
In an instant all eyes were turned that way.
"Can that be the dog ?" asked Darry.

"Something is traveling this way and stirring up a lot of dust." Whatever the moving object was, it appeared to be half a mile away up the straight, dust-covered road.
"Until we find out what it is," Dick suggested, "I believe that tree climbing will prove healthful exercise." Quickly they moved the push cart a little to one side of the road.
Then they ran for trees, but every member of Dick & Co.