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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Logan," said Laurier, disregarding that feeble inquiry, "you must help us in this." It seemed only a matter of a few minutes before Bert and Laurier and the storekeeper were examining a number of bicycles that were stowed in the hinder room of the store. Bert didn't like any of them very much. They had wood rims and an experience of wood rims in the English climate had taught him to hate them.
Our goods and safari stores we could then ship out to them by train. Accordingly we rode on bicycles out to the Swahili village. This is, as I have said, composed of large "beehive" houses thatched conically with straw.
Jones will hear of this." He chuckled again. Jones was the Captain commanding the Ammunition Column. The order ran down the line: "Eyes front." Soon afterwards they came to some policemen, and two girls in very gay frocks with bicycles, and the cross-roads.
"They must have loaned their bicycles to others." "Right you are," answered Tom. "We'll have to question them." "Do you know where they room?" "No; but we can find out from the register." They entered their dormitory and found out that Flood and Crossley were in the next building, occupying Room 14 together. "That's luck," said Sam "We won't have to wake up anybody else"
He took an especial fancy to bicycles: in the park attached to the cadet school he became very proficient in the use of them; and, returning to Bokhara at his first vacation, he took with him, not only a bicycle for himself, but another for his brother.
We walked, or rather were pushed along by the impatient rabble, and almost deafened by their shouts of “Bin, bin!” At the end of the village we repeated our question of where. Again they pointed ahead, and shouted, “Bin!” Finally an old man led us to what seemed to be a private residence, where we had to drag our bicycles up a dark narrow stairway to the second story.
Rusper, entwined a leg about him and after terrific moments of swaying instability, fell headlong beneath him amidst the bicycles and pails.
It is related that on the night of the disaster, right up to the time of the Titanic's sinking, while the band grouped outside the gymnasium doors played with such supreme courage in face of the water which rose foot by foot before their eyes, the instructor was on duty inside, with passengers on the bicycles and the rowing-machines, still assisting and encouraging to the last.
By the time we reached the khan the crowd had become almost a mob, pushing and tumbling over one another, and yelling to every one in sight that “the devil’s carts have come.” The inn-keeper came out, and we had to assure him that the mob was actuated only by curiosity. As soon as the bicycles were over the threshold, the doors were bolted and braced. The crowds swarmed to the windows.
It was evident that the paving was very greasy, but all the cabs that passed through my cylinder were going at a round trot, while the wheels, shod in rubber, whirred merely like bicycles. The hoofs of the animals themselves did not make that wild clatter which I knew so well. New York in fact, roars always like ten thousand devils.
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