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"A lot of good it will have done us to have watched the thing get this far if, when the machines and the flying men come, we can't get beyond the gates," said Harry Corwin. "I don't see what is going to get us inside any quicker than any other fellows that want to see the flying," commented Archie Fox dolefully.
Time was when a new baby could come into Homeburg and hold the attention of the town for a week. Now a baby is lucky if its birth notice isn't crowded out of the Democrat to make room for the list of new machines. As for those of us who haven't automobiles, life is pleasant and without responsibilities.
But she was bewildered and entranced by the marvellous swiftness, accuracy and ease with which each of the complex machines, fed by human hands, performed its function. These human hands were swift, too, as when they thrust the bobbins of roving on the ring-spinning frames to be twisted into yarn. She saw a woman, in the space of an instant, mend a broken thread.
On the other hand, the temperature of these flying machines, which consume so much oxygen, is very much higher than ours. It rises to 41 deg., 42 deg.
During the next five months they were incessantly on the go dealing with our party's western machines where they could; setting up rival machines in promising localities where Goodrich controlled the regular machines; using money here, diplomacy there, both yonder, promises of patronage everywhere. Such was my department of secrecy.
And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers.
Whilst I was lamenting this with the lady's femme-de-chambre, who was nearly as much distressed as her mistress, I saw in a detached closet a great many machines covered with paper, and all of different shapes. On inquiry, I was informed that the following Monday was the lady's birthday, which they were to celebrate with fireworks.
"Teacher, no ma'an; I'm loving mit her. She's got on now all mine best clothes the while her mamma buys her new. My aunt buys new clothes, too. Und my uncle." Sadie reported this shopping epidemic so cheerily that Teacher asked with mild surprise: "Where are all their old things?" "Teacher, they're burned. Und my uncle's store und his all of goods, und his house und his three sewing machines.
"Believe what?" "He went in one of those flying machines. Oui! Oui! Right up into the sky, Mademoiselle," went on the old man excitedly. "Yonder he mounted it beyond the gates. Ah, these times! It is so that soon one will take an aeroplane as one takes a taxicab in the city. Is it not?" Ruth listened and marveled.
Trait of benevolence includes again a tender feeling toward the brute creation Quakers remarkable for their tenderness to animals This feature produced from their doctrine, that animals are not mere machines, but the creatures of God, the end of whose existence is always to be attended to in their treatment and from their opinion as to what ought to be the influence of the Gospel, as recorded in their own summary.
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