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"He imagines I'm making good. I suppose I've rather helped along the notion, and he's due to get some jolt when he finds I've nose-dived to a crash." "Unfortunately," says Old Hickory, "we cannot provide shock absorbers for fond fathers. Any other reasons why you wished to remain on our pay roll?" "One," says Brink, "but it will interest you less than the first.
"I was going to stop somewhere about here for lunch," she said, producing a basket from under the seat; "in fact, I was thinking of lunch when when " "A' nose-dived on to ye," said Tam, preparing to depart. "Weel, A'll be gettin' along. There's nothing A' can do for ye?" "You can stay and lunch with me." "A've haid ma dinner," said Tam hastily. "What did you have?" she demanded.
It flew up, turned a somersault and nose-dived for a thousand feet, swung around in a wide circle, flew across the field at about four hundred feet, circled again and slid downward. Closer and closer it came to the ground, until the horizon was lost and it seemed to be gliding along the earth itself at terrific speed.
They shot his gear all to pieces and put his bally gun out of commission bullet clean through the tray. Rotten bad luck! So, being at their mercy, C. pretended they'd got him did a turn-over and nose-dived through the clouds very nearly on two more Boche machines that were waiting for him.
A bullet struck his wheel and sent the smashed wood flying. He nose-dived for his own lines and Tam glared down after him. Müller reached his aerodrome and was laughing quietly when he descended. "I met Tam," he said to his chief; "he tried to ram me at sixteen thousand feet Oh, yes. I came down, but ich habe das nicht gewollt! I did not will it!"
"Tairn him, Archie!" groaned Tam, and as though the earth gunners had heard his plea, a screen of bursting shrapnel rose before the dragon-fly. He turned and nose-dived with Tam behind him, but now his nose was for home, and Tam, after a five-mile pursuit, came round and made for home also.
High above him, and evidently a fighting machine that had been hidden in the upper banks of the cloud, was a stiffly built Fokker. "Noo, lassie!" said Tam and nose-dived. Something flashed past his tail, and Tam's machine rocked like a ship at sea. He flattened out and climbed. The British Archies had ceased fire and the fight was between machine and machine, for the squadron was now in position.
There's a new battery and unless I'm mistaken a new kind of gun that's why we climbed. They angled the lights and got our range in two calendar seconds and they never left us alone. There was one gun in particular that was almost undodgable. I stalled and side-slipped, climbed and nose-dived, but the devil was always on the spot." "Hum," said Blackie thoughtfully, "did you mark the new battery?"
She never left me. A' stalled an' looped, A' stood on ma head and sat on ma tail. A' banked to the left and to the right. A' spiraled up and A' nose-dived doon, and she stayed wi' me closer than a sister. For hoors, it seemed almost an etairnity, Tam o' the Scoots hovered with impunity above the inferno " "But why, Tam?" asked Blackie. "Was it sheer swank on your part?"
Roond an' roond ain another the dauntless airmen caircled, the noo above, the noo below the ither. Wi' supairb resolution Tam o' the Scoots nose-dived for the wee feller's tail, loosin' a drum at the puir body as he endeavoured to escape the lichtenin' swoop o' the intrepid Scotsman. Wi' matchless skeel, Tam o' the Scoots banked over an' brocht the gallant miscreant to terra firma puir laddie!
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