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Some, in turn, fed the fire, some rolled themselves in their blankets and lay down to sleep, but his eyes were lost all the while in the leaping blaze. A volleying signal of the locomotive whistles roused him. He looked at his watch and stepped to the verge of the ledge. Toward Sleepy Cat a headlight was slowly rounding the first curve.
The curve of this dashboard here sends the wind shooting up over our heads like a windshield. What's behind you?" I flashed the light back. The mechanism on which we were ended in another wall exactly similar to that over which O'Keefe crouched. "Well, we can't fall out, anyway," he laughed. "Wish to hell I knew where the brakes were! Look out!"
I found that the hardwood lining of both runners was broken at the curve, but the steel shoes were, though slightly bent, still sound. Fortunately the top had been down, otherwise further damage would have been sure to result. I saw no reason to discontinue the drive.
He was still watching the brougham when a surface-car came gliding swiftly around a curve. There was a smash of splintering wood and breaking glass. The car had struck the brougham a battering-ram blow, crushing a rear wheel and snapping the steel axle at the hub.
How shall I preserve my fleeting youth if you break in upon it in this ruthless manner?" "If I could only truthfully say that I was sorry," he answered, "but I can't. I am here and I would rather be here than anywhere else in the world." She looked at him with curving lips; and even he, who had watched her often, could not tell whether that curve was of scorn or mirth.
For Robin was delighted with his bow and arrows as soon as he found that he could send one of the light-winged shafts whistling in a beautiful curve to stick in some big tree. Then he began shooting at smaller trees, and then at saplings when he could hit the small trees. But the saplings were, of course, much more difficult.
Whistler plunged into the car, yelling to Torry: "Turn around! Turn around! Down the valley road to warn 'em! Get a move on, boy!" His chum was already starting the car. It wheeled perilously in a sharp curve, and with honking horn hurtled down the road which followed the course of the river. Without doubt the wall of the dam had been burst through by the explosion.
'My word, if we only had a maxim! muttered Roy, as he stared at the closely-formed column. 'Couldn't we make hay of 'em? Ken did not answer. He watched the men pass on until they were out of sight around a curve in the track. Then he and Roy moved on again. Round the next bend, they found themselves at the end of the friendly wood, and the ground beyond was a deal more open than seemed healthy.
Jays called in the thickets where the maples flamed amid the green oaks, with irregular splashes of red and orange. The grass was crisp with frost under the feet, the road smooth and gray-white in color, the air was indescribably sweet, resonant, and stimulating. No wonder the man sang. He came Into view around the curve in the lane. He had a fork on his shoulder, a graceful and polished tool.
The careful statistics of Dr. Reyer show that the greatest greed of reading is from the age of fifteen to twenty-two, and is on the average greatest of all at twenty. He finds that ten per cent of the young people of this age do forty per cent of all the reading. Before twenty the curve ascends very rapidly, to fall afterward yet more rapidly as the need of bread-winning becomes imperative.
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