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One of the favorite outdoor sports of this preacher for a month was to lie on his stomach on the front mud-guard of a big Pierce-Arrow through the war-zone roads, bumping over shell-holes, with a little pocket flash-light playing on the ground, searching out the shell-holes, and trying to help the driver keep in the road.
Uncle Sam did not answer. "Anyway, you're all right," Tom panted; "only my arm is worse than your old mud-guard. We're a pair of Can't you speak?" he added breathing the deadly fatigue he felt and putting his foot upon the pedal. "What do you say? Huh?" And then Uncle Sam answered. "Tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r Never mind your arm. Come ahead hurry," he seemed to say.
He jerked against some tin thing on the road, and it flew up between front wheel and mud-guard. He twisted round towards her. Had the machine a devil? At that supreme moment it came across him that he would have done wiser to dismount.
With five in the party; coffee-colored car with one mud-guard slightly twisted? The season was not quick in opening. To the Applebys the time between mid-May and mid-June was crawlingly slow. On some days they had two orders; some days, none at all.
Austin, the chauffeur, had received his final notice at last, for he was sprawling beside the wheel, with a great black bruise upon his forehead where it had struck the step or mud-guard in falling. He still held in his hand the nozzle of the hose with which he had been washing down his machine.
Shade worked in silence for a moment. "Now she'll go, I reckon," he announced, and once more the driver started up his car. It curved perilously near the bundle she had set down, with the handkerchief containing her cherished blossom lying atop; the mud-guard swept this latter off, and Buckheath set a foot upon it as he followed the machine in its progress.
"I could fall off my barn for nothing, and as like as not be less hurt than when you've got through with me!" "I'll get you back all right," said Miss Sinclair. The stranger showed symptoms of wanting to climb into the tonneau by way of the mud-guard; and his enthusiasm was unbounded when he was directed to the door. "Gosh!" he exclaimed, seating himself luxuriously on the cushions.
"We'll have to see how much damage has been done," declared Dave. He crawled from the car and Roger followed. The other boys were also coming out in the storm, but the senator's son stopped them. "No use in all of us getting wet," he said. "I don't think the damage amounts to much. A mud-guard is bent and the hood is scratched and the glass broken, but I guess that is all.
It is true I knocked some splinters from the barn, put a crimp in a mud-guard, and smashed another man's tail-light in the process, but nothing fatal occurred, though I found it a pretty good plan to stick fairly close to my new study on the cedar slope if I wanted to keep up with the garage and damage bills.
And indeed except for a slight crumpling of the mud-guard and the detachment of the wire of one of the headlights the automobile was uninjured. Mr. Britling resumed his seat; Mr. Direck gravely and in silence got up beside him. They started with the usual convulsion, as though something had pricked the vehicle unexpectedly and shamefully behind. And from this point Mr.
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