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Come on, everybody, and we'll get up steam and fly to Nesbit's." Of course every one wanted to ride in the new car. David and Anne decided, however, to go with Mrs. Gray, and with a honk! honk! the automobile was off. The Nesbit home was ablaze with light. Mrs. Nesbit stood in the wide hall waiting to receive Miriam's guests.
They emerged from the crowded building into the brilliant light of outdoors, and Gilbert had just helped his companion down the steep, rickety steps, when a new sound arose above the babel of the fair, and quenched for a moment even the scream of the bagpipes. It came from the highway, a hoarse "honk, honk," strange, and yet, to Gilbert, familiar.
Down the driveway came a heavy auto-truck and although the little girl saw the approach of this, she could not well see what followed the great vehicle. She escaped the peril of the truck, but came immediately in the path of a touring car that shot out from behind to pass the truck. With a nerve-racking "honk! honk!" the swiftly moving car was upon the child.
Through its phenomenal expansion new industries have been created and old ones enriched. It withstood panic and rode down depression; it has destroyed the isolation of the farm and made society more intimate. There is a car for every one hundred and sixty persons in the United States; twenty-five States have factories; the honk of the horn on the American car is heard around the world.
But another event occurred, quite unexpected, indeed, and which, while it did much to impede their progress, created a good deal of excitement and interest. The first intimation of its coming was the sudden cry of wild geese not very far away. Their "Honk! honk!" was very distinct, and not only excited the boys, but also the dogs.
"O," cried the boy, in dismay, "I just can't wait that long!" "Walk, then!" said the conductor, crossly. "It's too far," replied the boy, "when you've got a stone toe." "A what?" ejaculated the conductor; but his voice was lost in the honk! honk! of a big white touring car which pushed slowly through the crowd.
There was the honk of an auto horn in the street below, and as they looked out, they saw, in the gleam of a street lamp, Ruth and Alice alighting. "There they are now!" exclaimed Mr. DeVere, with a note of relief in his voice. "But Russ isn't with them!" said Mrs. Dalwood, in surprise. "I wonder what can have happened to him?" Anxiously the two parents waited until the girls came up.
Presently the birds came out of the water, and finding a pair of boots gone they were alarmed, and quickly forming into two long lines with their leader at the point where the lines met, they flew away crying, "Honk! Honk! Honk!" But one of the flock remained behind crying, "I want my boots! I want my boots!"
I mean, so much brain work, and that sort of thing." "Honk!" says Mr. Grunt. "I should love so much to see one of your factories. They must be so interesting." "Honk!" says Mr. Grunt. Then he turns and moves away sideways.
Tell Kess he should come for Sunday dinner to-morrow." She was a white streak across the grass, her nervous feet flying. Almost instantly the honk of a horn came streaming back, faint, fainter. Left standing there, Goldstone was instantly solicitous of his wife, feeling along her arm up under the loose sleeve.
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