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The brother and sister quickened their pace and, racing along the soft earthern road, soon reached the patch of forest that intervened between the garden and the nursery. "I say, Noreen, I think we'd better go the long way round," said Daleham apprehensively, as he pulled up his waler. "Oh, no, Fred. Don't funk it. Do come on," urged the girl.
Cloud, where the championship was held. The team were the guests of the Racing Club at a most delightful luncheon and shortly afterward dined as the guests of the Tennis Club of Paris.
On Wednesday afternoon the school had planned a mountain walk; but the weather, with its usual northern perversity, turned on the water-tap, and sent down deluges of rain. July can be quite as wet as February, and through the steaming window-panes the disappointed girls watched little rivers racing down the walks, and black clouds driving over the fells.
"So they're bound to crowd me out again, are they?" he muttered. "Well, we'll see what comes of it. If I get a chance, I'll cook that cowboy for butting in." With the close of the afternoon session, many of the boys, palpitantly eager to get out onto the field, went racing and shouting, down through the yard and across the gymnasium, where their baseball suits were kept.
The farmer, in the coming years, when eggs to town he brings, will flop along above the trees, upon his rusty wings. The doctor, when he has a call, from patients far or near, will quickly strap his pinions on, and hit the atmosphere. And airship racing then will be the sport to please the crowds; there'll be racecourses overhead, and grandstands in the clouds.
Full weight they had given the gallant big Black a hundred and sixty he carried; And the run for the "Hunt Cup" was over three miles, with mud-wall and water-jump studded. The best racing days of the old horse were past there'd never been better nor braver But now once again he must carry the silk I was needing the help of Crusader.
And all at once, as I thus stood, the City of Pekin flashed into my mind, racing her thirteen knots for Honolulu, with the hated Trent perhaps with the mysterious Goddedaal on board; and with the thought, the blood leaped and careered through all my body.
Nothing could have been more care-free and debonnaire than the demeanour of these men. And then Reggie Byng arrived in his grey racing car, more cheerful than any of them. Fate could not have mocked George more subtly.
"We'll carry off the pieces of that ship, too, Quince we may be able to get a lot of pointers from it," and Brandon swung mighty tractor beams upon the severed halves of the Jovian vessel, then extended a couple of smaller rays to meet the two little figures racing across the smooth green meadow toward the Sirius. Among Friends at Last
At Hyde Park Corner he ran into George Forsyte, very sunburnt from racing, holding a false nose in his hand. "Hallo, Soames!" he said, "have a nose!" Soames responded with a pale smile. "Got this from one of these sportsmen," went on George, who had evidently been dining; "had to lay him out for trying to bash my hat.
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