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Updated: May 28, 2025
All this time the engines of the two cars had continued to work, and their muffled chug-chug-chug helped to cover the noise of footsteps. What pleased him most was to see, out of the corner of his eye, that the girl had taken advantage of her release to climb to the chauffeur's seat of the car in which Maku had brought them from Chicago.
Only the Boche long-range guns were firing, and their shells were going well over our heads. And no more French infantry were coming up. 9.20 A.M.: The two Horse Artillery batteries were away. Our teams and limbers had come up, all except one team of C Battery. We waited for the colonel to give the word. Suddenly the "chug-chug-chug" of a motor-cycle: a despatch-rider from Division!
The first intelligible sound the boy made was a chesty chug-chug-chug in imitation of a panting engine tugging its freight load up the incline toward the Junction. When Chug ran away which was on an average of twice daily he was invariably to be found at the switchman's shanty or roaming about the freight yards. It got so that Stumpy Gans, the one-legged switchman, would hoist a signal to let Mrs.
It was exactly 2 P.M. on the morrow. We were mounted and moving off to participate in this theoretical battle, when the "chug-chug-chug" of a motor-cycle caused us to look towards the hill at the end of the village street: a despatch-rider, wearing the blue-and-white band of the Signal Service. The envelope he drew from his leather wallet was marked "urgent."
"I suppose you'd like to go right over?" "We should, if you can take us," said Mother Blossom. "The children are hungry and it must be after noon." Captain Jenks assured her that he could take them to Apple Tree Island without stopping at any other port, and as soon as they were comfortably on board he started his engine. "Chug-chug-chug!" coughed the little motorboat.
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