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When the taskmaster urges the coolies to do their best, one of these "hot-foot" boats chugs along in calm water at a five-knot gait, but ordinarily three knots an hour is the normal speed. On the left bank of the river and close to Canton is a large leper village, where all native craft approaching the city have to pay a "Leper toll."
In a few chugs it had reached the tramps' side, they having stopped, bewildered, in the meantime. "Why, blow me, Bill," said one to the other, as the car came up, "if it ain't the self-same gents as drove down the road a while ago." "Give me those papers, you rascals!" shouted Mortlake, almost flinging himself out of the car, "give them to me or " "Hold your horses, guv'ner!
With a series of puffs and chugs a big, shiny motor cycle turned from the road into the graveled drive at the side of a white farmhouse. Two boys sat on the creaking saddles. The one at the front handle bars threw forward the clutch lever, and then turned on the power sharply to drive the last of the gases out of the twin cylinders.
She never has," Foster answered dubiously. "Reason I asked, she didn't just choke down from the pull. She went and died on me." "That's funny," Foster observed weakly. On the level Bud went into neutral and pressed the self-starter with a pessimistic deliberation. He got three chugs and a backfire into the carburetor, and after that silence.
Then suddenly, not a mile away, it ceased, dying to silence in a few panting chugs, leaving the void a crash of silence. Not a breath now it was like a nightmare. Even the camp was listening. They heard each other's breathing catch, but that was all. Back in the locked stable the two horses snorted with fear; the strain had reached even them. A short ten minutes of awful waiting.
He drove it for several years in the roughest kind of work. Then he bought a new Ford and sold his old one. By 1915 No. 420 had passed into the hands of a man named Cantello who took out the motor, hitched it to a water pump, rigged up shafts on the chassis and now, while the motor chugs away at the pumping of water, the chassis drawn by a burro acts as a buggy.
About noon, Father Pat, coming slowly up the three flights, heard a series of slam bangings coming from the direction of the Barber flat also, sharp toot-toots, and heavy chugs. And when the priest opened the hall door and peeped in, a conductor's bell was ding-dinging, while the empty wood box was careening madly in the wake of the wheel chair. "Ha-ha-a! Johnnie lad!" he hailed.
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