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Updated: June 1, 2025
Another medicine seller would go about with a gaily painted wagon, carrying a cornet player, a singer or a banjoist to attract a crowd. And when the men and women were gathered about the end of the wagon, which had a broad platform on the end and a flaring gasolene torch at night, the man would tell about his medicine and sell all he could.
An additional supply of gasolene was taken aboard, some adjustments made to the machinery, and more food put in the lockers. "There are the girls!" exclaimed Dick, after they had made a successful landing at the fort, which they would soon leave on their long flight. "Oh, so they are!
This type of engine is not likely to be used to any extent for commercial flying, or even flying for sport. It is expensive, very wasteful of gasolene and oil, and difficult to keep in repair. For men who may have had some experience in the assembly of airplanes at factories, or of rigging them at flying-fields, there is great opportunity.
"Me either," chimed in several lads. "And that's a new power boat," went on Bert. "It's a dandy, too. We ought to have a gasolene engine to work our fire apparatus." "No, we shouldn't!" exclaimed Cole. "Those valves on our pumps wouldn't stand being worked too fast. Our engine is good enough as it is." "Of course it is. We haven't had much use of it lately, have we?"
Never, Ned thought, had he seen a man so slow at getting ready the supply of gasolene. He was to take it out in a wagon, but first he mislaid the funnel, then the straining cloth, and finally he discovered a break in the harness that needed mending. "I believe he's doing it on purpose to delay us," thought the youth, "but it won't do to say anything. Something is in the wind."
"We are lost!" cried the professor, as he felt the Monarch plunging down. For a hundred feet or more the ship shot earthward bow first, so that the adventurers all slid down to that end. It was well that everything, including the gasolene tanks, had been lashed fast, or there would have been a great jumble inside the craft.
Jackson and Eradicate, who were holding back the monoplane from gliding over the ground. "All right," answered the engineer. An instant later the explosions almost doubled, for Tom turned on more gasolene. Then, like some live thing, the BUTTERFLY rushed across the starting ground.
As the great propeller spun round, coats ballooned out with the rush of air, and the noise was such that one could hardly hear one's own efforts to shout. It was a sound which filled you with awe. The propeller was stopped after a few minutes, and the mechanicians shot up the sides of the craft, and punched oil and gasolene into the places where it was needed.
These the young aviators now pulled down and rushed with them to the motor compartment, from which the black smoke was pouring in greater volume. "Look out for a gasolene explosion!" warned the lieutenant. "Is there any of it there?" "Only a little," answered Mr. Vardon. "The main supply is in the deck tank. But there is a small can in there for priming the cylinders, in case we have to."
It mantled the shoulders of the workmen and the withers of the horses; it clogged the wheels of the fresnos so that dirt was moved with ever-increasing difficulty; it veiled the flaring gasolene torches and choked the night.
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