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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Another quarter of a mile and I would have had a spill and no mistake!" "Same here!" came from Jack. "Oh, isn't this the worst yet!" "What's wrong?" queried the acrobatic youth. "The back wheel is loose, and two of the sprockets of the sprocket-wheel have been filed down, to let the chain slip," answered Pepper. "And my handle-bars are loose and the chain all but filed in two," cried Jack.
That gentleman appears to favour the strenuous life, if one may judge by the size of his sprocket-wheel." He pointed to a bicycle that was drawn up by the kerb in the approach a machine of the road-racer type, with an enormous sprocket-wheel, indicating a gear of, at least, ninety.
I tell Polly that Four Oaks is a sprocket-wheel for maids, with two links of an endless chain always on top. It makes but little difference which links are up, so the work goes smoothly. Polly thinks the maids come to Four Oaks just as less independent folk go to the mountains or the shore, for a vacation, or to be able to say to the policeman, "I've been to the country."
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