"If you really want to see the winner of the first prize, just
gaze steadily in my direction," and he grinned.
"I'm not saying anything, but that doesn't prove that I'm not
thinking a lot," said Bob. "Never leave little Bob Layton out of it
when there's a prize hanging around to be picked."
"It would be just like your beastly luck to win it," said Jimmy.
"There won't be much luck about this, I guess," said Joe. "By the
time the judges get through picking the winner, the chances are it
will take a pretty nifty set to pull down first prize--or second,
either, for that matter," he added. "There's a lot of fellows
trying for it, I hear."
"Well, as far as we four go, we all start even," continued Bob.
"All that we know about radio we learned together, so nobody has
a head start on the other."
"That doesn't help me much," said Herb. "What I need is a big head
start. I think I'll enjoy myself working the set we have already,
and let you fellows slave your heads off trying for prizes. I know
I'd never win one in a thousand years, anyway."
"Oh, you might--in a thousand years," put in Jimmy, wickedly;
"not any sooner than that, though."
"Oh, who asked you to put in your two cents' worth, you old croaker?"
said Herb, giving Jimmy a poke in his well padded ribs. "I'll win that
prize just as well by not working as you will by working.
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