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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Touch!" cried at this moment one of the men at the forewheel, who was superintending the operation. The captain and the lieutenant mounted the quarterdeck. "What depth have we?" asked the captain. "Three thousand six hundred and twenty-seven fathoms," replied the lieutenant, entering it in his notebook. "Well, Bronsfield," said the captain, "I will take down the result.
The car, running a little less than locomotive speed, shot across the strip of sidewalk, caught its right forewheel against a sapling, swung heavily broadside to the drive, and turned completely over as it shot down the slope to the lake. A terrific crash was followed by a hideous chorus of oaths, shrieks, cries and groans.
Recently I had a thrush knock himself senseless against the spokes of my forewheel, and cycling friends have told me of similar experiences they have had, in some instances the heedless birds getting killed.
There was a slight crash. 'There! continued the coachman. 'That's what comes of my turning round! Sol looked out on the other side, and found that the forewheel of their carriage had become locked in the wheel of a dogcart they had overtaken, the road here being very narrow.
Knowing this I took an anxious, economical view of the old rockaway heaving forward in the road ahead and vainly implored William to slacken his speed to a moral, ministerial gait. In another moment it was over. The mare crashed into the rockaway on one side and the bay shattered the swingletree on the other with the forewheel of our buggy.
He seized a spoke of the forewheel and shook the old vehicle angrily. The spoke came away in his hand. "Never mind it," quavered the man. "We're all coming to pieces, me and the whole caboodle. Don't hit me with it, though!" He was eying the spoke in Buck's clutch. "What did you steal her for, Brick Avery?" "There isn't anything sure about her going away with me," the other protested.
He saw the cause of it all: the right forewheel had come off, letting the front of the buggy drop. He unhitched the excited team from the carriage, drove them to the fence and tied them securely, then went back to find the wheel and the "nut" whose failure to hold its place had done all the mischief. He soon had the wheel on, but to find the burr was a harder task.
"We want to go to a hospital," Beverly had said to the driver, very much as she might have spoken had she been in Washington. She was standing bravely beside the forewheel, her face flushed and eager. Baldos, from his serene position on the cushions, watched her with kindling eyes. The grizzled driver grinned and shook his head despairingly. "Oh, pshaw! You don't understand, do you?
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