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Barry bounces around a lot on his elbows and stomach, but I had a firm grip on his legs and we didn't lose him off. "More gas now!" calls Ann as we hits the bottom. "Ouch! My tummy!" groans Barry. "Never mind," says Ann. "Only three miles more." Say, it was the weirdest automobilin' I ever did, but Ann ran with everything wide open and we sure were coverin' the distance.
"An' if the machine I 'ad on 'ire from a pal o' mine chap what keeps a second-hand shop for 'em in the Portland Road 'adn't 'ad everythink 'appen to 'er wot can 'appen to a three-an'-a-'arf 'orse-power Baby Junot wot 'ad seen 'er best d'ys before automobilin' 'ad cut its front teeth," said W. Keyse, with bitterness, "we would 'ave bin 'ere before!
His face clouded over. "'No use, Barzilla, says he; 'I'll have to give it up. "'Guess you will, says I. 'Automobilin' is "'I don't mean automobilin', he snorts disgusted. 'Course not! I mean bein' constable. "So there you are! From cussin' automobiles he's got so that he can't talk enough good about 'em. And every day sence then he's out on the road layin' for another chance at Tobias.
"It's most time for the up train. Good-by, Hiram. Give my regards to Sophrony, and if there's anything I can do to help, in case your baby should be sick, just sing out, won't you?" "But I want to tell about this automobilin' scrape," protested Captain Bailey. "It was one of them things that don't happen every day." "So was that fortune business of Effie's," declared Wingate.
"Then he commenced to spin yarns about himself and his doin's, and pretty soon it come out that he'd been a cowboy afore young Stumpton give up ranchin' and took to automobilin'. That cleared the sky line some, of course; I'd read consider'ble about cowboys in the ten-cent books my nephew fetched home when he was away to school.
The Stumptons had left their summer place on the Cliff Road, and was on their way South for the winter. Young Stumpton was up to Boston, but he was comin' back in a couple of days, and then him and the shover was goin' automobilin' to Florida. To Florida, mind you! In that thing! If it was me I'd buy my ticket to Tophet direct and save time and money.
He wa'n't very well, he said, subject to some kind of heart attacks, and had come to the Old Home for rest. "Him and the Cap'n had great arguments about the sins of automobilin'. Jonadab was sot on the idee that nine folks out of ten hadn't machine sense enough to run a car. Bradbury, he declared that that was a fact with the majority of autos, but not with his.
"Just now we're automobilin'," observed Captain Sol. "Set down, Hiram." "Automobilin'?" repeated the new arrival, evidently puzzled. "Sartin. Barzilla's takin' us out. Go on, Barzilla." Mr. Wingate smiled broadly. "Well," he began, "we HAVE just about reached the part where I went autoin'. The widow and me and Jonadab." "Jonadab!" shouted Stitt. "I thought you said " "I know what I said.
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