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Robert takes a look over by the window at Mallory, who wasn't seein' a thing but Sis and wasn't hearin' anything but what she was sayin' and she was sayin' a lot. "Is is that Skid?" says Mr. Robert. "Oh, come along now, Bob," says Dicky, pokin' him in the vest playful.
Ernie" this to the driver, along the side of the bus "you oughter have slowed down when thet copper waved his little flag: he wasn't pleased with yer, ole son!" No, that dent in the staircase wasn't done by no shell. The ole girl got that through a skid up against a lamp-post, one wet Saturday night in the Vauxhall Bridge Road. Dangerous place, London!"
"Oh, Mr. Robert!" says she. "I want to know which of you is who here, don't you know. Is it you that works for Skid, or Skid that works for you?" "Chee!" thinks I. "That upsets the soup kettle." Mr. Robert looks at Mallory, and Mallory looks at him. There was no breakin' away; for she has hold of a hand apiece. Both of 'em makes a start; but Mr. Robert gets the floor.
For he felt very weak and faint and weary, though the cold rain and the open night air beat on his upturned face with a sting that was gratefully refreshing. "They certainly did make a mess o' you!" chortled the unmoved driver, as they rumbled westward and took the corner with a skid of the great wheels that struck fire from even the wet car-tracks. He tucked the bill down in his oil-coat pocket.
When the portage is made the whole force of boatmen and able-bodied passengers are required to stand by each boat, pull it out of the water, and then skid or drag or cajole it along till it is thrust into its native element again. To the willing crofter or Orkney boatmen this was not a great task, but to the Glasgow immigrant, or the waiter-on-fortune this was hard work.
The motor-'buses were crammed with passengers, and manifested an unpleasant tendency to skid; pale- faced strap-holders crowded the carriages of the Tube; for days together the sky remained a leaden grey. It takes a Mark Tapley himself to keep smiling under such conditions.
"We'll do all the before-breakfast work, and we'll have the real appetites when we get to the food. You watch us." They watched her skid around a sharp corner and heard her car for some few moments thereafter, but that was all. They were too well used to Crazy Jane McCarthy, by this time, to be surprised at anything she might do or say. The drive to Johnson's dock was a short one.
It looked as if it was going over, and a cry from the spectators showed that they, too, anticipated this disaster. But, with a sharp wrench of the steering wheel, Noddy brought the car back toward the center of the track. Jerry swung around the turn at reduced speed, and, because of the chains, his machine did not skid more than a few inches. "Good thing you have those chains on," commented Tom.
Running, as the car was, at top speed, the flood picked it up and drove it forward even more swiftly for several rods. "Shut her off! Shut her off!" yelled Frenchy excitedly. But Torry was wiser than that. The water flattened out, and the whirling wheels bit into the road again. They did not skid, and the car remained upright.
"That is, there never was anything in it, you know, to begin with." "Oh, there wa'n't, eh?" says I. "Forgot all about that picture you used to carry around in the little leather case, have you?" Skid, he flushes up a bit at that, and one hand goes up to his left inside pocket. Then he laughs foolish. "It isn't I who have forgotten," says he.
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