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The sea was so wild it was impossible to send out the life-savers' boats, so the guards were making ready the breeches buoy. "They are going to shoot the line out now," explained Hal to Bert, as the two-wheel car with the mortar or cannon was dragged down to the ocean's edge. Instantly there shot out to sea a ball of thin cord. To this cord was fastened a heavy rope or cable.
The man had only a two-wheel chaise, and this was the vehicle which Boxtel had hired since last evening, and in which he was now driving along the road to Delft; for the road from Loewestein to Haarlem, owing to the many canals, rivers, and rivulets intersecting the country, is exceedingly circuitous.
There you would have seen remarkable, even comical things; poor people, for example, tied their cattle to two-wheel carts, armed as though they were horses, carrying their few possessions, together with their small children, in the wagon. The little children, whenever they came upon a castle or a city, asked whether this was the Jerusalem to which they were going.
As it was, it was a long time before the wound healed, and then he was sold for coal-carting; and what that is, up and down those steep hills, only horses know. Some of the sights I saw there, where a horse had to come downhill with a heavily loaded two-wheel cart behind him, on which no brake could be placed, make me sad even now to think of.
"'Tis Cecil, by the jingling steel, 'Tis Cecil, by the pawing bay, 'Tis Cecil, by the tall two-wheel, 'Tis Cecil, by the fragrant spray." "O Cecil, how lovely! Oh, the maiden-hair. You've been making acquaintance with Essie and Lina?" "I did not know you were out, Babie," said Essie. "Was my aunt with you?" "Yes. We just ran over to see Mrs.
The boat slowed down; made fast; out came the gangplank; ashore went the little two-wheel carts drawn by the sleepy, tired dogs; then the baskets of onions were rolled off, and the few barrels of freight, and then two or three passengers among them a small, feeble man, in a long coat reaching to his heels made their way to the dock. "That's the last man to come ashore here," said Marny.
"The light wagon's got one hind spindle half in two, and I've spliced the hind ex for the last time." Jackson advanced an idea. "At Fort Hall," he said, "I've seed 'em cut a wagon in two an' make a two-wheel cart out'n hit. They're easier to git through mountains that way." "Now listen to that, Jesse!" Mrs. Wingate commented. "It's getting down to less and less every day.
"'It's then it comes on me about that gunboat an' the promises old Butler makes himse'f about hangin' me when caught. Which these yere reflections infooses new life into me. I makes the doctor who's talkin' go rummagin' about ontil he rounds up a old nigger daddy, a mule an' a two-wheel sugar kyart. It's rainin' by now so's you-all could stand an' wash your face an' hands in it.
After that the quiet smoke under the vine-covered end of the portico with the view towards Cartersville. "There comes the jedge," said the colonel, pointing to a cloud of dust following a two-wheel gig, "and Major Yancey behind on horseback."
You know I have ordered a light two-wheel cart, built very strong for the mountains, to carry our spare ammunition, powder for blowing up bridges, cooking pots, and stores. I have not engaged a driver as yet. If your Irishman who you say understands horses likes to go as a driver, to begin with, I will promise him the first vacant rifle.
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