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Updated: June 30, 2025
And the car wheels, as they turned, seemed to be saying, mile after mile: "A way to escape a way to escape a way to escape!" Standing in his kitchen doorway, Brown looked out into his back yard. It was, in one way, an unusual back yard for that quarter of the city, and in that one way it differed from the back yards of his neighbours.
For, as the wagon wheels rattled upon the bridge, up jumped a cock out of the ditch by the road side, from under a willow brush, and skimmed past all of us within five yards.
"Be careful you don't get hurt," she cried, as we threaded a narrow passage in and out among the stamping, throbbing machinery, where, by the light that filtered through the grimy windows, I got vague, confused glimpses of girl-faces shining like stars out of this dark, fearful chaos of revolving belts and wheels, and above the bedlam noises came girlish laughter and song.
It was actually more than midnight, the servants had been sent to bed, the rattle of the wheels had ceased to come in through a window still open to the August air, and Robert Assingham had been steadily learning, all the while, what it thus behoved him to know. But the words just quoted from him presented themselves, for the moment, as the essence of his spirit and his attitude.
But though the picture would not let itself be blotted out, its effect was rather to intensify her sense of relief because she had slipped so safely from under the wheels of destiny.
These two looms were very old and had been several generations in the family. Three other girls were occupied with wheels, spinning wool and flax. Along the walls of this large room, which was about twenty feet square, were a number of bench-like sofas, used for beds. Two or three wooden chairs, and a large wooden table surrounded by wooden benches, made up the rest of the furniture.
As they stood resting for a few moments they heard the rumble of heavy wheels, a wheezing and puffing, a shrill whistle, a cloud of black smoke, a shower of cinders, and the evening express passed upward into the cool, dark shadows, carrying its load of human necessities into the heart of the Rockies.
"Was that you?" asked the Monkey of the Rabbit. "I was just going to ask if you had called," said the Rabbit. "Baa-a-a-a-a!" came again. "It sounds like the Lamb on Wheels," said the Candy Rabbit. "Oh, it can't be," said the Monkey. "She'd come in to see us. Who do you suppose it is?"
Goodriche's, when the children, having done their morning lessons, had just gone out of the hall-door, on their way to Henry's arbour, when they heard the wheels of a carriage sounding from a distance.
When they had crossed the Atlantic they had been careful to inflate the four spare inner tubes of their landing wheels, as these would make capital life-preservers in case the flyers were thrown into the sea; and one of the last things they did before leaving Aden was to see that the tubes were still inflated.
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