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One of them travellin' circuses, goin' down the coast; and one of the elephants had sore feet, so they put him in a big waggon, and another elephant pulled in front and one pushed behind. Three elephant-power it was, right enough. That was the waggon wot made the big track. Well, it was all done so sudden.
His life is a fresco-painting, on which some Cyclopæan Raphaelite has poured his rainbows from a fire-engine of a hundred elephant-power. We paltry officials live meanly in pen-and-ink sketches. Our little life is bounded by a dream of promotion and pension. We toil, we slave; we put by money, we pinch ourselves.
So he slows down passin' two yokels on the road, and he says, 'Did you see a big car along 'ere? "'Yes, we did, they says. "'How big is she? says Henery. "'Biggest car ever we see, says the yokels, and they laughed that silly way these yokels always does. "'How many horse-power do you think she was? says Henery. "'Horse-power, they says; 'elephant-power, you mean!
She was three elephant-power, they says; and they goes 'Haw, haw! and Henery drops his clutch in, and off he goes after that car." Alfred lit another cigarette as a preliminary to the climax. "So they run for miles, and all the time there's the track ahead of 'em, and Henery keeps lettin' her out, thinkin' that he'll never ketch that car.
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