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Updated: May 19, 2025
Taylor ran about jubilantly, returning every few moments to pat Keith on the shoulder. "Fine! fine!" he cried. "We've got those Eurekas! I can't wait for morning!" Keith got home about daylight to find Nan, terribly anxious, waiting up for him.
There was not a scholar in the party, so we all returned unenlightened, but profoundly interested and impressed, and with that delightful sense of stimulated curiosity which is worth more than all Eurekas.
Therefore, one engine was required to relay to another, pumping the water from the cistern, through the hose, and into the waterbox of the other engine. The other engine pumped it from its own waterbox on to the fire. The latter, of course, was the position of honour. The Eurekas fell back grumbling, and uttering open threats to wash their rivals.
No stern parent rides behind, no interfering aunt beside, no demon small boy brother is peeping round the corner, there never comes a skid. Ah me! Why were there no "Britain's Best" nor "Camberwell Eurekas" to be hired when we were young? Or maybe the "Britain's Best" or the "Camberwell Eureka" stands leaning against a gate; maybe it is tired.
It became evident, from glimpses caught down the side streets, but especially through the many vacant lots, that another engine was paralleling their own course a block away. "Jump her, boys, jump her!" shrieked Bert Taylor. "For God's sake, don't let those Eurekas beat you!"
"That's what!" put in Sonora with a broad grin. "What cigars have you?" asked Ashby, at the conclusion of his round of drinks. "Regalias, Auroras and Eurekas," reeled off the Girl with her eye upon Billy Jackrabbit, who had quietly come in and was sneaking about in an endeavour to find something worth pilfering.
At tremendous speed they charged through the ring of spectators, and drew up, proud and panting, victors by a hundred feet, to receive the plaudits of the multitude. A handsome man on a handsome horse rode up. "Monumentals on the fire! Eurekas on cistern number twenty!" he commanded briefly.
After a moment he put on his felt hat and joined Keith and Ward, who were walking slowly toward the landing. "Well," remarked a rough-looking Yankee our old friend Graves of the Eurekas to his friend Carter "I didn't know anything would cool off the major like that!" "I reckon the major knew who he was talking to," replied Carter. "Who is the cuss? I never saw him before." "Don't you know him?
These fell silent as Bennett and Keith approached. The Eurekas represented quite a different social order from the Monumentals.
We, harassed among the base utilities of life, made weary and sore by the ceaseless struggles of emulation and daily warfare, turn wistfully to the Peripatetic among the shady groves of Athens, dream of quiet Saracenic courts, echoing with plashy fountains, of hooded monks, pacing away their cloistered lives beneath storied vaults and little patches of sky, knowing, while we dream, that out of these came of yore the happiness of the old eurekas and the deep sweetness of ancient knowledge.
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