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In a bound he was on the bank, and stood exposed to the enemy's fire. With something that was like a laugh and yet had an unearthly quality about it, he threw his helmet off and stood bareheaded in the golden sunlight. 'En avant, messieurs! he cried. 'Suivez-moi! There was a grinding of the gears and a roar of machinery as the tank reared its head and lunged after him. 'Stop that man, Selwyn!
In the mean time, the elder traveller, as if familiar with the nature of the impulses by which his children were governed, disencumbered himself of his pack and rifle, and, assisted by the man already mentioned as disposed to appeal so promptly to the rifle, he quietly proceeded to release the cattle from the gears.
The snow was fading now, the air was warmer; a mile or so more and he would be safe from that threat which had driven him down from the mountain peaks, the possibility of death from exposure, had he, in his light clothing, attempted to spend the night in the open. If the burred gears could only hold the car for a mile or so more But a sudden, snapping crackle ended his hope.
174. =Community Leadership.= In the last analysis the prime factor in the rural situation is the community leader. Institutions can do little for the enrichment of rural life if personality is wanting. It is the leader's energy that keeps the wheels of the machinery turning, his wisdom that gears their action to the needs of the community.
I don't believe he's touched a drop since I've been barmaid, Mr. Hudson. I should think you'd be proud of him." Sylvester was silent while they climbed the hill. He changed gears and sounded his horn. They passed another motor on a dangerous curve. They began to drop down again. "Some day," said Sylvester in a quiet voice, "I'll break every bone in Dickie's body."
"Well, say," Vic objected, rubbing his tousled blond hair into a distracted, upstanding condition, "I wish you'd show me just how you shift his gears. How the dickens do you do it? He don't know what you say." Before he left, Starr showed him the gestures, and Vic that evening practised them so enthusiastically that he nearly drove Helen May wild.
Five hundred dollars damage, lawyer eh!" "No matter, till I see you. Put your nag in gears quickly you have little time to spare!" The pedler proceeded to the work, and was in a little while ready for a start. But he lingered at the porch. "I say, lawyer, it's a hard bout they've given me this time. I did fear they would be rash and obstropulous, but didn't think they'd gone so far.
I grant you, it is honest men's fashion at this unhappy time; the more is the pity. But we do all above board we have no traitors here. I'll get into my gears first, to encourage you, and show you that you have to deal with a gentleman, who honours the King, and is a match fit to fight with any who follow him, as doubtless you do, sir, since you are the friend of Master Louis Kerneguy."
Then, poling the craft along, until she was in the "cradle," Ned held her there while Tom went on shore to wind up the windlass that pulled the car, containing the boat, up the incline. "I'll give you a hand, as soon as I find she sets level," called Ned, from his place in the boat. "All right don't worry. There are good gears on this windlass, and she works easy," replied Tom.
The gears come to him always in exactly the same place, he gives each one the same number of shakes, and he drops it into a basket which is always in the same place. No muscular energy is required, no intelligence is required. He does little more than wave his hands gently to and fro the steel rod is so light. Yet the man on that job has been doing it for eight solid years.
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