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Halding struck him roughly over the head and scrambled into the machine with him, reaching with his one disengaged hand for the self-starter button. Before he could touch it, the Mistress was on the running-board of the car. As she ran, she had opened her wristbag. Now, flinging on the runabout's seat a ten and a five-dollar bill, she demanded "Give me my dog! There is the money you paid for him!"
"It it was took!" sputtered his brother between chattering teeth. Another moment of scared silence. Then the driver rallied his awed faculties. Stepping on the self-starter, he brought the runabout into motion, and headed down the road. "Where are you goin'?" queried the other. "No use a-keepin' on, this d'rection. It " "If it was took," answered the driver, truculently, "'twasn't took by no car.
Then he appeared to forget the announcement, and pressed again on the self-starter, listening above its shrill song for the deeper rumble of the engine. This did not ensue, and he shifted his heel, turning a plaintive eye upon the young man. "She don't seem to excite," he said. "I've tried and tried, and I can't excite her." It was an old, old story to Wilbur Cowan.
Then, the driver murmured in a faraway voice: "Did you did you was you fool enough to think you seen anything? Was you, Eitel?" "I-I sure seen SUTHIN', Roodie," quavered Eitel. "Suthin' with with the kid in its mouth. It " "That's good enough for me!" announced the heroic Roodie, stamping again on the self-starter. "If we both seen it, then it was THERE. And I'm goin' after it."
But she's dipping down fast." "Oh, for a dirigible balloon now!" cried the lieutenant. "We could float while making repairs." But it was useless to wish for that. They must do the best they could under the circumstances. "There she is! The last wire in!" shouted the aviator. "How much space left, Dick?" "About two hundred feet!" "That may do it. Now to see if the self-starter will work!"
Each one was carrying a bundle of supplies, for they expected to cruise for about a week. They boarded the motor boat. Betty threw over the lever of the self-starter. The engine responded promptly. As the clutch slipped in, white foam showed at the stern where the industrious propeller whirled about. The Gem slid away from the dock. "Good-bye! Good-bye!" called the boys and girls to Mr. Lagg.
Still great sections of back country, too far from railroads and electric car lines, remained strictly rural. Finally the automobile, made inexpensive enough for families of average income and provided with that great innovation, the self-starter, changed it all. This was not so very long ago. Approximately with the World War came the moderate-priced car that need not be cranked by hand.
He came out of the physician's office to find Jean Forette calmly reading in his side of the car. The paper was put away at once, and with a whirr from the self-starter the motor throbbed. "It there a free public library in town, Jean?" asked the detective. "Yes, monsieur. "Take me there."
=The automobile factory.= Each successive model in an automobile factory is a concrete illustration of the process of making substitutions, and each substituted part bears witness to a close scrutiny of past experiences as well as of the wants of prospective purchasers. The self-starter was a want at first; but now it is a need, and, therefore, a necessity.
"Yes, father has to go to Porto Rico on business, and we are going to make a winter cruise of it. Mamma and we girls are going, and what I came over to ask you " The voice of Bess was rather lost in the throb of the motor as Cora thrust over the lever of the self-starter. As the two girls settled themselves in the seat, Bess resumed: "I came over to ask if you couldn't go with us, Cora?
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