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Cousin Egbert by now was looking slightly disturbed, or outré, as the French put it, but tries to conceal same under an air of sparkling gayety, laughing freely at every little thing in a girlish or painful manner. "Yes," says he coquettishly; "that Sandy scoundrel is taking it fast out of one pocket, but he's putting it right back into the other. The wheel's loss is the bar's gain."
The front wheel had retained its tyre, was intact, was still rotating slowly among the blackened and twisted ruins of the rest of the machine. It had something of that air of conscious virtue, of unimpeachable respectability, that distinguishes a rent collector in a low neighbourhood. "That wheel's worth a pound," said the rosy-faced man, making a song of it. "I kep' turning it round."
Yet under that stone was the end of the wheel's axle with cogwheels rigged to pass on the power engendered by the wheel to some mechanical contrivance not yet placed. Whistler returned the flat rock back to its former position, and moved slowly back from the place on hands and knees. Then he stood up and looked all around to see if he had been observed.
Joe always insisted "it was pure native goodness." Then they called out to the carters and other wagoners: "Oh, mister, say! Your wheel's goin' round!" And sometimes without understanding the driver would look and hear the shout. They had another trick they played out in the Bowery.
The heads of the nine other game-owners bent over and joined in the examination. Big Burke straightened up and cast a glance at the near-by stove. "Hell," he said. "It wasn't any system at all. The table stood close to the fire, and the blamed wheel's warped. And we've been worked to a frazzle. No wonder he liked this table. He couldn't have bucked for sour apples at any other table."
I'm awfully sorry. It's pretty dark, isn't it? I never changed a tire but once before. Austin's always done that." "Austin's always done almost everything," snapped Sylvia. Then, peering around to the back of the car, "Why don't you do something? What is the matter now?" "The lock on the extra wheel's rusted you see it hasn't been undone all winter. I can't get it off." "Well, smash it, then!
Lawyer Quince was still busy, and looked up inquiringly as they passed before him. "I s'pose," said the diplomatic Mr. Hogg, who was well acquainted with his neighbour's tidy and methodical habits "I s'pose you couldn't lend me your barrow for half an hour? The wheel's off mine." Mr.
But wait! the wheel's going down down down....Good thing I have you to hold to poor Miss Sapphira, she can't come, now! Listen at all the street-criers, getting closer, and the whistle-sounds I wish we had whistles; the squawky kind. See my element, Abbott, the air I've breathed all my life the carnival.
This lane leads out on to the Bainbridge road, by the old Ellison Place, and that's only two miles from home. But, after all, nobody may come along here for hours to help us about the cart." Just then old Billy came lumbering up around the curve behind them. "Sho, now!" he said, surveying the wreck. "Wheel's come off." "Exactly so, Billy. Now the question is, can we get it on?" returned Eunice.
"Why, Jan and I discovered an old mill about half a mile up the river, while we were out looking for cedar. It's out of repair, and the dam is partly broken away; but the machinery in it seems to be pretty good, and the wheel's all right.
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