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"It seems a shame " began Tod, when they were once more outside, then asked abruptly: "Willing to take a licking, Jerry?" "And go back on the Skyrocket? Did you think we were going any other way? And leave the machine here for anybody to come along and study out or steal? Not much! I'll take a dozen lickings!" But he didn't.
He found the whole Boy Scout crew gathered about the Skyrocket, having given up a perfectly wonderful fishing trip to guard the airship. Jerry quickly told the story of the morning's events to Phil, interrupted at every other sentence by the rest of the excited Scouts. The whole affair appealed to their imaginations, and when he came to the proposition he had made Mr.
In the meanwhile, one of the boys took the small can and went the rounds and filled all the torches with gasoline, while another came close behind him and started them going. Tod finally left the rest to finish the job of filling the Skyrocket, and disappeared in the direction of the workshop.
She spoke to herself, without thought, uttering the cry for help that had been pent within her all that awful night. The puzzledom of Septimus grew unbearable in its intensity; then suddenly it burst like a skyrocket and a blinding rain of fire enveloped him. He stood paralyzed with pain and horror.
Because there's nothing up in the air to see. Wait till the old Skyrocket shoots up," and Jerry walked over to where the boys were standing. "Old grouch," he said to himself. "You'd think he didn't want to see us win out." Tod came hurrying back from the hangar. "Where's dad?" he asked. "Hasn't got back yet." "That's funny. I saw him leave the cabin as I went in to start up the dynamo.
This skyrocket finance is all right for New York, but we can't allow it here in the country where folks are mostly square or trying to be." "It seems hard to let the house go," said Sylvia. "It's given Mary a home and we'll have to find a place for her." "Oh, that's all fixed," remarked Mrs. Owen. "I've got work for her at Elizabeth House. She can do the darning and mending.
Of course, I don't lose any money by it I gain some. But I hate to sell my idea to a gang of cutthroats and thieves. I resent being black-handed into a thing like that. But with Billings laid out, the Skyrocket wrecked and myself all binged up, there's little chance. I suppose I could get a lot of mechanics and turn out a new plane in time, but I don't know where I could get men I could trust.
Mr. Fulton came hurrying to the door, a big look of relief on his face when he saw who it was. "I couldn't wait till morning, Mr. Fulton. I just had to tell you I knew the Skyrocket didn't fall of its own free will. I saw two men skulking in the woods. They both carried big rifles.
He tried first one and then another, but although they lurched dangerously, first this way and then that, they kept mounting into the sky. Finally there was but one chance left Tod cautiously drew the lever toward him, then with an "Ah!" heard above all the noise, brought it all the way. The Skyrocket quivered, dropped to an even keel, and then turned her nose earthward.
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