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Randolph in conclusion, "I'll trust you with the Monarch II because you are something more than a grass-cutting pilot by mail trying to coast a flying machine off the ground." "I hope to deserve your compliment," laughed the young aviator. "You've got a horse power engine and planes hard to beat.
"I consider it perfectly marvelous, and I can't imagine how it must seem to skim along that way." "Come and try it," urged Tom suddenly. "There's not a bit of danger. Really there isn't." "Oh! I'd never dare do it!" replied the girl, with a gasp. "That machine is too swift by name and swift by nature for me." "Why don't you take Miss Nestor on a grass-cutting flight, Tom?" suggested Mr. Damon.
The usual occupations of the sons of Japanese peasants, such as grass-cutting and rice-weeding, were not to the taste of young Monkey-pine, as the villagers called him, and he spent his time in the streets, a keen-witted and reckless young truant, who feared and cared for no one, and lived by his wits.
"But down there, when we started in at 'grass-cutting, and worked our way up, we grew to know him better. Then Jack and I got our chance to come over. But Harry had a smash, and he had to wait a year." "Yes, I know. It almost broke his heart," said Miss Leroy.
"Me no fright," the son of a chief retorted, by his insolence increasing his stature in the eyes of his fellows. "Lock him up for to-night," Sheldon said to Kwaque. "Sun he come up put 'm that fella and five fella belong him along grass-cutting. Savvee?" Kwaque grinned. "Me savvee," he said. "Cut 'm grass, ngari-ngari stop 'm along grass. My word!"
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