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A roar of laughter rose at Tom's expense, whose reputation as a worker was none too brilliant. "All right then, boys," roared Tom. "Ye'll have to take it. Git togither an' quit yer blowin'." He cast an experienced eye over the ground where the huge timbers were strewn about in what to the uninitiated would seem wild confusion. "Them's the sills," he cried. "Where's the skids?"
"Pretty's all right!" joined in Billy Long. "Only one thing wrong with him. He starts easy, and he speeds up well, but just at the critical moment he always skids." "Hear the motor talk from Short and Long! Yow!" exclaimed Reddy Butts. "And old Purt's not so slow at that!" "Who said he was slow?" demanded Short and Long, with apparent indignation. "Bet you can't do him, Reddy."
The ordering of cannon on board a ship was a matter which demanded a nice care. The gunner had to see that the carriages were so made as to allow the guns to lie in the middle of the port. Moreover, if the wheels were very large, and the ship were heeled over, the wheel rims would grind the ship's side continually, unless large skids were fitted to them.
All the wooden parts, such as skids and levers and propellers, long since vanished and gone, he had cleverly rebuilt. And now the machine, its planes and rudders covered with strongly sewn buckskin, stretched as tight as drum heads, its polished screw of the Chauviere type gleaming in the morning sun, stood waiting on the sands, while Stern gave it a painstaking inspection.
"Kain't buy 'em cheap enough, no more, huh? Gotta ketch 'em yourself, huh?" "Hard-boiled old crab, aren't you, Doug?" Gower rumbled in his deep voice. But he laughed. And he rowed away to the beach before his house. MacRae watched. Betty came down to meet him. Together they hauled the heavy rowboat out on skids, above the tide mark.
Half a mile beyond that, beside the first donkey shuddering on its anchored skids as it tore an eighteen-inch cedar out by the roots, they came on Lefty Howe. He shook his head when Stella asked for Fyfe. "He took twenty men around to the main camp day before yesterday," said Lefty. "There was a piece uh timber beyond that he thought he could save.
As she nears the sea, faster still she slides and shoots over the well-greased skids, urged forwards by her own weight and pulled forwards by the crew, who grasp the haul-off warp moored off shore a long way, and at last, as a warrior to battle, with a final bound she meets the shock of the first great sea. And then she vanishes into the darkness. God speed her on her glorious errand!
"No," said I, "long, leisurely curves are best all through life. You have observed that nearly all the accidents on the road are due to sharp turnings." "Right you are!" he exclaimed. "A man who tries to turn too sharply on his way nearly always skids." "Or else turns turtle in the ditch."
If he skids on the snow he'll break her neck." "Much more likely to break his own neck," said Horry. In his savage interior Mr. Waddington wished he would, and Horry too. "He won't skid," said Barbara; "if he does I'll hop off." "We'll come back," said Ralph, "if we don't get on all right." They started in a duet of explosions, the motor-bicycles hissing and crunching through the light snow.
In landing the left wing touched first. The machine swung around, dug the skids into the sand and broke one of them. Several other parts were also broken, but the damage to the machine was not serious.
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