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By this means the current passes from the wire down the conductor connected with the trolley pole, thence through the motors placed below the body of the car, and from them, through the track or ground-return, back to the power station. A small portion of the current is employed for lighting the electric lamps in the car. In some systems an underground trolley is employed.
They falls on the platform 'n' Orphy picks 'em up 'n' goes south with 'em. "'That's what I call a live guy! says Peewee. 'I'm proud to know him. "Pretty soon Orphy comes back 'n' jerks the trolley off 'n' we stop on a big square with a monument in the middle. "'We got to wait here at the Public Square fer Mrs. Boone, he says. "In about twenty minutes here comes a dame across the Square.
The team started off about noon, but the "rooters", most of whom had eleven-thirty recitations, started an hour later, after a hurried dinner. Thacher was only twenty-odd miles away, but the journey occupied more than an hour, since it was necessary to take train to Wharton and change there to the trolley line.
"There's Talley's wagon," remarked Jimmy, as he noted the presence at the curb of a vehicle bearing the name of the leading caterer of the town. "I'll bet we're going to have some eats." "And you've just come from the supper table!" exclaimed Bob. "He's like a trolley car," chaffed Joe. "You can always crowd more into it."
"Yes," agreed Amy, "I suppose we must do the usual thing. We must walk until we drop. Then we cover ourselves with leaves, pillow our heads on a rock and sleep the sleep of exhaustion." "What was that?" asked Clint. "What was what? Don't tell me you heard a bear!" "I guess it was the trolley car. Only it seemed to come from over that way, and that fellow said the trolley line was over there."
So then, one crisp afternoon, in company with other candidates, all rather in fear and trembling, he hopped aboard a trolley to go out to Yale Field. Dunk was with him, as were also Bob, Ted, and Thad, who likewise had hopes. There was talk and laughter, and admiring and envying glances were cast at the big men those who had played on the varsity team last year.
Any attempt to reach the weapon would surely result in an immediate counter offensive, with himself at a disadvantage. No, he must think of something subtler than that. On the seat beside him lay a packet of Gold Flake cigarettes, bought from a trolley on the platform. It gave him an idea. He put one in his mouth and began to slap his pockets as though searching for matches.
If the patient is in an exceptionally suffering condition he is not placed on the receiving-hall bed; instead the Medical Officer having given his permission his stretcher is put on a wheeled trolley and he is taken straight away to his ward, so that he will only undergo one shift of position between the ambulance and his destination.
Emerson had told them on the Memorial Day trip. "We've seen so much history in the last week, though," declared Ethel Blue, "that I don't believe I can ever realize that I'm living in the twentieth century!" The week after the home-coming from the Massachusetts trolley trip was a time of busyness for the Ethels and Dorothy.
And he did, or, if not exactly all the way home, the faithful dog made his way out of the woods, until he came to the main road, along which ran the trolley track. "Oh, now I know where we are!" cried Bunny, in delight, as he saw several houses ahead of them. "Why, Sue, we're right on our own street. We weren't much lost!" "Well, I'm glad we're found," Sue said. It was easy to get home now.
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