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Updated: June 10, 2025
Perhaps it was too much gas, perhaps too much lubricant, perhaps a spark plug was carrying too much carbon. At any rate, the engine of the Sea Rover chose that time to chug and cease to revolve!
I like to fuss around for company." She was a wonderful cook, Mrs. Scaritt, and liked to display her skill. "Who is there to bring?" "The boys and girls you go around with. Who is it you're always fixing up for, evenings?" "Nobody." Mrs. Scaritt tried another tack. "I s'pose this house isn't good enough for 'em? Is that it?" "Good enough!" Chug laughed rather grimly.
When you have practically spent your entire day sprawled under a balky car, with a piece of dirty mat between you and the cement floor, your view limited to crank-case, transmission, universal, fly-wheel, differential, pan, and brake-rods you can do with a bit of colour in the evening. And just here was where Chippewa failed Chug.
Yet there was scarcely a break in the steady chug of the engine, or the gentle swish of water alongside. The clouds broke slightly after midnight, occasionally yielding a glimpse of a star, but the uninhabited shore remained desolate and silent.
During the years she had been companion to Mrs. King, Theo's dinner and luncheon hours were ones of joy to her. Now this day had passed without him. "He'll show up before long," Morse said presently. "What a lot of worry you have over that man!... Now if you had a problem on your hands like mine " The soft chug of a motor cut off his ejaculation. "He's coming, now," he said, getting up.
They reluctantly assisted the aged passenger to alight and watched him climb into the rain-soaked launch. He stumbled and almost fell into the seat under the dripping canopy. Captain Jennings propped the leather cushions under his sagging arms, and as the girls turned away from the landing they heard the motor of the River Queen chug out.
A mile from town the man Stool halted them and waited, and presently heard the chug of a motor. Soon Al Drummond drove up in the last of his five-ton trucks, in the bottom of which, tossed about, lay the still unconscious form of the old prospector. The two men worked swiftly, and slanted two twelve-inch planks two inches thick from the rear end of the truck to the ground.
Just in front of us, scarcely a half-mile distant, were the fighting lines, partially enveloped in dense smoke, out from which broke patches of blue or gray, as charge succeeded charge, or the wind swept aside the fog of battle. The firing was one continuous crash, while plunging bullets, overreaching their mark, began to chug into our own ranks, dealing death impartially to horse and man.
There is an automobile for every fifty people in Detroit. The children on the streets know the name, make, and model of nearly all the cars produced. You can stand in front of the Hotel Pontchartrain, in the public square, and see the whole automobile world chug by. Formerly our cities were motor-mad; now, as in the case of Detroit, they are motor-made.
Have we made that distance already?" Sam's teeth glittered in another expanding of his mouth. "Wal', we's bin a goin' et a mighty good gait, sah. She ain't done fooled none on me all dis night," his hand laid lovingly on the engine. "Nebber kicked up no row o' no kind just chug, chug, chug right 'long. 'Pears like she sorter know'd dis nigger hed ter git away.
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