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Updated: April 30, 2025
I've been thinking all along that I was the original electric self-starter, when you've really had to get out and crank me every few miles." Into Emma McChesney's face there came a wonderful look. It was the sort of look with which a newly-made angel might receive her crown and harp. It was the look with which a war-hero sees the medal pinned on his breast.
If the school would but make as careful study of the boy's experiences and his wants as the manufacturer does in the case of automobiles, and then would attach the substitutions to these experiences and wants, the boy would very soon find himself in happy possession of a self-starter which would prove to be the very crown of school work.
"What is it?" she called back gaily. "I just said hiyer?" "Fine! Hiyer, yourself?" she laughed pleasantly, although stopping the engine entailed getting out and cranking, since her car boasted no self-starter. All of the old men bowed familiarly to the girl and indulged in some form of pleasantry. "Bootlegging now, or what are you up to?" asked Major Fitch.
Don't you see the crowds? Can't you hear them cheering? Palmer! Palmer! * Yes, we're coming! * Palmer is coming back. * Way there!" He found the self-starter; the engine sounded. He found the clutch and gears. His eyes were shut. The car started slowly and he opened his eyes. Pauline sank back in the seat, laughing and clapping her hands, half hysterically. "Bravo, Palmer!" she exulted.
The male plotter experienced no difficulty in finding the grizzled desert rat. He was evidently a self-starter, having brought his own, and, all alone at Ghost Falcott's bar, he was pouring raw jackass brandy down a throat that seemed urgently in need of it.
The hum of a self-starter reached me faintly, and a moment later there rolled slowly forth a dark-blue touring-car of luxurious aspect, driven by a chauffeur whose coat and cap and goggles gave him rather the appearance of a leather brownie, and bearing in the tonneau Miss Falconer, elaborately coated and veiled. She was turning to the right, not the left; she would not pass me.
He sat stonily at the wheel and at intervals pressed a determined heel upon a self-starter that would whir but an impotent protest. He glared up at Wilbur as the latter came to rest beside the car. "Well, what now?" He spoke impatiently. "I'm going to enlist; I thought I would tell you." Sharon pointed the heavy brows at him with a thumb and uttered a disparaging "Humph!"
Waiting a moment, the girl sighed, touched the self-starter and drove away. Deacon had no idea of any lapse of time between the departure of the car and himself in his cot prepared for sleep with, however, no idea that sleep would come. His mood was pitiable.
"Now she excites!" he exploded, gleefully, as the hum of the motor took up the shrill whir of the self-starter. He stopped the thing and bent a reproachful gaze upon Wilbur. "Every one else leaving me even that Elihu Titus. I never thought you would, after the way we've stood together in this town. I had a right to expect something better from you.
"We want a dog!" had been a kind of family cry until Babe's last birthday. Some six months before that birthday Babe came to me and said: "Father, will you guess what I want for my birthday?" "A new pair of skates with a key fore and aft," I replied. "Skates in August!" he shouted in derision. "Try again." "A fast-flyer sled with automatic steering-gear and an electric self-starter and stopper."
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