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Updated: June 18, 2025
"There's another great point about the Gasowashine, too," he said. "As you see, it's too heavy to shove from place to place. What do we do?" "Leave it where it is," I hazarded. "Not at all. We simply invert it! The whole business is water-tight. Every door fits so closely that it's impossible for a drop to escape.
Bursting through the doors, it snorted for a moment, and seemed to be considering the long rows of tables before it. Several waiters, gasping with astonishment at the uncouth apparition, ran to check its progress. That seemed to stir the Gasowashine anew. It emitted a sharp puff of rage and plunged headlong forward.
I was within perhaps ten feet of the Gasowashine when another door, this time a smaller one toward the front, squeaked for a moment and then flew open. Simultaneously a bolt of something white shot forth and made for my head. Regardless of appearances, I dropped flat to the floor and wriggled out of the danger zone. When I arose, I realized what new disaster had taken place.
The machine puffed harder, the wheels revolved more rapidly, and the whole affair climbed steadily toward the dining-room, dragging the tenacious cook along the incline in a sitting posture. Thus was made the first public appearance of the Gasowashine, to the utter amazement of some hundred diners.
The cook seemed to be feeling for a new grip. "Here! What are you doing?" cried the inventor. "Don't touch any of those handles." "It is that I seek a place for ze hand," murmured the cook apologetically. "Well, find it and let her down. Got your grip?" "Aha! I have eet!" announced the Frenchman, clutching one of the brass knobs. "All right. Down!" Down went the Gasowashine.
It was the sixty yards of dish-towel this time! Presumably, a roller had smashed and released the thing; at any rate, there it was, yard after yard of it, trailing after the Gasowashine as it thumped energetically toward the street door. And that was not the worst. The end of the toweling entwined itself about one of the dining-tables and held there.
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