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'I want a bit of stopping, Philpot said as he helped himself to some. 'Is the b r gorn? whispered Crass. 'I don't know, replied Philpot. 'Where's his bike? ''E always leaves it outside the gate, so's we can't see it, replied Crass. 'Tell you what, whispered Philpot, after a pause. 'Give the boy a hempty bottle and let 'im go to the gate and look to the bikes there.
King, bicycling rapidly down the greasy Turl with an armful of books, collided vigorously with another cyclist at the corner of the High. They both sprawled on the curb, bikes interlocked. "My god, sir!" cried the Goblin; "Why not watch where you're going?" Then he saw it was Johnny Blair. "Sorry, Goblin," said the latter; "I I was thinking about Kathleen."
Sometimes there came a warning shriek from behind, and everything drew to one side to make room for a dispatch rider on a motor cycle. These had the right of way. Sir Douglas Haig himself, were he driving along, would see his driver turn out to make way for one of those shrieking motor bikes! The rule is absolute everything makes way for them.
I wouldn't say but you might do it, miss; but the gentleman wouldn't be fit. He's not accustomed to the like." "We're not going to ride back," said Molly. "You're going to take us back on the engine, with the two bikes in the tender, on top of the coal." "I can't do it, miss," said the driver. "I declare to God I'd be afraid of my life to do it. Didn't I tell you I was out on strike?"
"That's all my h'eye. I see you sneak it, and it'll be a month for you. Sneaking bikes is awful! Mistake be blowed." "Oh! explain, some of you," said Rogers, frantically, "before I Grim, tell the lunatic."
Still looking at Miss Meredith, the man shrugged his shoulders, and replied, "Bain't vor the bikes of ar to zay Mister Cauldwell bai a liar." Yet the voice and manner left little doubt in the hearers as to the speaker's private opinion, and Janice laughed, partly at the implication, but more in nervousness. "What kind of work are ye used to?" asked Mr. Meredith.
Machine guns "motor bikes" in our nomenclature rattled our left and right, our position being that of the far apex of a triangle, exposed to inflated fire all the way up.
"I don't want to lose any of the fun " "Nor must you," said the crammer, with emphasis. "But we've left our bikes outside, and mine's a Beeston Humber," continued Raffles. "If you don't mind, we'll bring 'em in before these fellows get away on them." And out he went without a look to see the effect of his words, I after him with a determined imitation of his self-control.
His leader was a mass of entrails lying about, and on the other side lay four or five more, one with a foreleg blown clear off at the shoulder, one minus a head. A half-dozen motor cycles and over a dozen push bikes lay in the mud with some unrecognizable shapes that had been riding them.
My sakes! but the flies bite the critters this morning, an' no mistake." Janice "hopped in," and Mr. Dexter clucked to the willing horses. "I jest been takin' a party of our young folks over to Middletown to take examinations for entrance to the Academy," proclaimed Walky. "An' that remin's me," added he. "Did yer see that feller go by on one o' them gasoline bikes?" "On the motorcycle?" "Ya-as."
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