Crossword-Solution: SKYRIDER 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And I claim she's some poet! Quit cussin' and listen, Johnny; yo' all never heard this 'un, and I'll gamble on it: "'_Through the clouds we'll float in my airplane boat--_' That, there's by Skyrider.

And whenever he told it, Sudden Selmer would repeat what he called _The Skyrider's Dream_ from the first verse to Mary V's last--even unto Bud's improvisation.

You think nobody knows anything but you! You're the little boy that invented flyin'--got the idea from yore own head, by thunder, when it swelled up like a balloon with self-conceit! That there gas-head of yourn'll take yuh right up amongst the clouds some day, and you won't need no flyin' machine, neither! Skyrider--is--_right_!" Accidentally Johnny had touched Bud's self-esteem in a tender spot.

Skyrider, Skyrider, what saw you there? I saw old maid Venus a-dyeing her hair!" Having through much industry accomplished all this while Johnny was putting up her horse, Mary V slid the revised lesson out of sight under other papers and was almost decently civil to Johnny when he returned.

Before he started back, Johnny leaned over and shouted to Mary V: "You can tell the boys they can sing that Skyrider thing all they want to, now." "They won't want to--now," Mary V yelled back.