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The boys had fetched a mattress, had found pillows and a sheet, somewhere, and gently we laid the dying man on the old farm cart. "You boys take your bikes and go ahead. Tell the refugees you meet to pull to the right and not encumber the whole road. We're rushing a wounded man to the hospital. When I think you've got the way clear I'll drive on full speed.
"I saw it advertised in the Queen. A splendid one." "Ah! Magdalen, you will think I have not taught them their Milton," said Mrs. Best, as both elders burst out laughing; and Agatha said, in an undertone, "Don't make yourself such a goose, Vera." "I should think it rather rough sailing for bikes," said Paulina.
Then he would lose the list. Said George: "Just sufficient for a day or two we will take with us on our bikes. The bulk of our luggage we must send on from town to town." "We must be careful," I said; "I knew a man once " Harris looked at his watch. "We'll hear about him on the boat," said Harris; "I have got to meet Clara at Waterloo Station in half an hour."
We put it at from three to six weeks. At Holyhead we carefully took our bikes aboard, and settled down to a cold voyage. We were all a trifle apprehensive at our lack of escort, for then, you will remember, it had not yet been proved how innocuous the German fleet is in our own seas. Ireland was a disappointment. Everybody was dirty and unfriendly, staring at us with hostile eyes.
We howled for his mother to come to our aid, which she finally did, and she separated the kid from his toys. I put on my bloomers, when the Captain came in and viewed me, saying: "Texas bikes; but it doesn't bloom yet. I don't know just what Texas will do if you parade in those togs but you can try."
When they went out to drill, Dick Percival said to Jack: "Well, my boy, it seems to me as if you showed just as cool a head last night as you did in the afternoon when you stood in the road and directed the two fellows who were rushing down upon you on their bikes. I would have liked to seen the fun."
"Sure, an' I don't like bein' pushed around, an' I don't like to see other folks kicked an' slugged by a lot of spalpeens dressed up in brown shirts." "You may get to wave to that girl when we fly over Berlin," Stan said. "I could go straight to her house, only she lives a ways out of Berlin. We used to go ridin' in the country on our bikes.
"Yo' young ge'men am discommodin' de reg'lah passengers an' taking up mo' room dan Ah speckerlated on," he muttered. "Whyn't yo' go back de same way yo' come?" "Walk and wheel our bikes?" cried Harry. "Not much. There's room for all of us and I want to talk with Dick."
In any case, be prepared, Richard, she will turn the house upside down and your work will be cut out for you to get it straight again. I am sure she bikes; she will probably drop her cigarette ashes into your best Venetian glasses; she is certain to hate goloshes and long skirts, and will enjoy rearranging the furniture.
The quarrymen don't work here because this place hasn't been open for more than a hundred years; but they go to Duke's quarry down at Merivale, and most of 'em have push bikes to take 'em to and from their job. "At these cottages, on my way back to breakfast, I got some information of a very definite kind. Two men told the same tale and they hadn't met before they told it.
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