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"When you get to City Island," said Sally, "try to look crippled." "Not you," I said, "but the Hobo." "Tell them," said Sally, "if they ask questions, that you were blown from your moorings, and that you couldn't get back in the teeth of the gale because because " "Because," said I, "your cylinders slipped, and your clutch missed fire, and your carbureter was full of prunes."
Andy declares that there has been no rain to the northwest and that he has done sixty miles already this morning, but can't get his carbureter to working properly, as usual. By this time several owners and a dozen critics have assembled, and the morning debate on gasoline versus motor spirit takes place. It ends a tie and both sides badly winded, when Pelty Amthorne drives in, very mad.
Bess and the others understood. "And now," went on Jack, "we'll proceed to find out why the Dixie won't mote. We want her in shape to-night." "That's right," assented Dray. "I think it's the carbureter. I'll get a man from the garage to look it over." "We'll want a fast boat if the one those fellows have is as speedy as you girls say," remarked Walter. "Couldn't we take the Chelton?" asked Ed.
"I say!" cried Jack, looking up from where he had been examining the carbureter with an electrical pocket flash, "we're drifting out to sea!" "So we are!" agreed Ed. "Say, can't you get her going?" "Can't seem to," replied Drayton. "I'll sell this boat and get another as soon as I can. She's a nuisance!"
Santos-Dumont's success in aerial navigation is due largely to the gasoline motor, which generated great power in proportion to its weight. A gasoline motor works by a series of explosions, which make the noise that is now heard on every hand. From the gasoline tank, which is always of sufficient capacity for a good long run, a pipe is connected with a device called the carbureter.
Old Dave Sage-Brush's son has borrowed him an automobile, and gone back to town on his own hook. Guess you'd better call up the division despatcher and tell him the broken-wire gag didn't work. Get a move on. We hain't got nothin' to stay here for now." Blount had a very pleasant drive across country, with no mishap worse than a blown-out tire and a little carbureter trouble.
Seems to me even Prudence could have done better than that." "I'll have his automobile break down in the middle of the road, and Prudence can run into it. The carbureter came off, and of course the car wouldn't run an inch without it." "Yes, that's good," said Carol approvingly. "It must be a sixty cylinder, eight horsepower er Ford, or something real big and costly." "Twins!
Every little bump and stone in the road seemed magnified because of the speed at which they were moving. But Blake held the long handles firmly, and, once the curve was passed, he turned the rubber grip that let a little more gasoline flow into the carbureter to be vaporized and sprayed into the cylinders, where the electric spark exploded it with a bang. "We are going some!" panted Joe.
All this sounds simple enough, but a great many things must be considered that make the construction of a successful working motor a difficult problem. In the first place, the carbureter, which turns the oil into gas, must work automatically, the proper amount of oil being fed into the machine and the exact proportion of air admitted for the successful mixture.
At length he gave it up in despair and abstractedly felt for his watch-fob. Which wasn't there. Neither, investigation developed, was the watch. At which crowning stroke of misfortune, the timepiece must have slipped from his pocket into the water while he was tinkering with that infamous carbureter, Maitland turned eloquently red in the face.
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