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Milt did not reflect that if the poet had watched the Teal bug go by, he would not have recorded a scare-horn, a dare-horn, or anything mightier than a yip-horn. Milt saw himself a cross-continent racer, with the envious poet, left behind as a dot on the hill, celebrating his passing. "Lord!" he cried. "I didn't know there were books like these! Thought poetry was all like Longfellow and Byron.
Hammond was inclined to believe that "Brighteyes" would be a big feature picture. The director was enthusiastic about it as well. Mr. Hammond arranged for a special car for the cross-continent run, and he took his own family along, as the weather prophesied for the ensuing few weeks was favorable to out-of-door work and living.
And by these I do not mean the weary females described by Lizzie Annandale as reclining on the shoulders of their men companions, in mal-adorous day coaches on cross-continent "jumps." These women, if he will pardon the contradiction, are not the "representative middle class of the American stage."
Remember, I have got to obtain both speed as well as power in this locomotive, for it is being built to pull a passenger train a fast cross-continent express to compete with the best passenger equipment in the country." "Bless my combination ticket!" murmured Mr. Damon. "You have picked out some task, and no mistake, Tom Swift."
That had been about the second biggest day of his short life; the biggest had come earlier when they had actually allowed him to sign on for Survey duty. He had tumbled off the cross-continent cargo carrier, his kit a very meager kit slung over his thin shoulder, a hot eagerness expanding inside him until he thought that he could not continue to throttle down that wild happiness.
Mr. Richard Bartholomew was just that a "big-little man." In the railroad world, both in construction and management, he had made an enviable name for himself. He had actually built up the Hendrickton and Pas Alos from a narrow-gauge, "jerkwater" road into a part of a great cross-continent system that tapped a wonderfully rich territory on both sides of the Pas Alos Range.
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