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'The profession will not impose that necessity upon me, remarked the young practitioner. 'Outside the wheels of the machine, sir, we indulge our hallucination of immunity.
I assented to his question, and he said: "I never heard of no fishin'. When people want to fish, they go to a lake about ten miles furder on." "Oh, I do not care particularly about fishing," I said, "but there must be a good many pleasant roads about here." "There's this one," said he. "The people on wheels keep to it." With this he turned and walked slowly towards the back of the house.
Then, wheels down and locked. Air speed correct. "Better keep flying speed," he thought grimly. "This bucket has the gliding angle of a brick." For a moment habit almost fouled him up again, as he waited for the plane to "sell out," then he remembered that he had to fly it in.
'And he had the wheels to make it go. Here they whispered in earnest. 'Oh, the Billings were as rich as the Belthams, said the captain, aloud. 'Pretty nigh, William. 'That's our curse, Greg.
The wheels followed merrily over the sound, hard road through the park, and the gentle though almost imperceptible fall of the ground giving an impetus to the vehicle, they bowled away as if they had four of the soundest, freshest legs in the world before them, instead of nothing but a belly-band between them and eternity.
Each imp put an arm about me to steady himself, as I produced my three-hundred-dollar time-keeper and showed them the dial. "I want to see the wheels go round," said Budge. "Want to shee wheels go wound," echoed Toddie. "No; I can't open my watch where there's so much dust," I said. "What for?" inquired Budge. "Want to shee the wheels go wound," repeated Toddie.
As the same invitation was given on almost every Sunday throughout the year, and was invariably answered in the same way, there was not much excitement in this. But Mr. Bates would not have dreamed of going in to dinner without being asked. "That's Medlicot's trap," said Mr. Bates, as they entered the yard. "I heard wheels when they were in the horse paddock."
All alone with the croaking frogs and lonesome crickets. Hark! what was that? A roll of wheels and the clatter of a horse's hoofs. "Whoa!" called out a boy's shrill voice. Down to the ground dropped the owner of the voice. "What is the matter, little girl?"
And when these grew tiresome we dashed boldly into the midst of a school of huge, beastly porpoises engaged at their eternal game of arching over a wave and disappearing, and then doing it over again and keeping it up always circling over, in that way, like so many well-submerged wheels. But the porpoises wheeled themselves away, and then we were thrown upon our own resources.
The girl had thrown up the sash and stood drinking in the cold air, though she shivered a little, and forgetful of my presence clenched her hands at her back. From the bedroom, to which Bobby had withdrawn, drifted his voice in the melancholy tune and words of one of Lawrence Hope's lyrics: "Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheels "
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