[The Adventure Club Afloat by Ralph Henry Barbour]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventure Club Afloat CHAPTER VIII 8/23
The boys gazed at it in wonderment, too interested in the equipage itself to heed the occupants.
When it was out of sight again Han ejaculated: "Well, I'll be switched, Perry! I didn't suppose there was one of those things left in the world!" "Neither did I.And there won't be pretty quick, I guess, for it looked and sounded as if it would fall to pieces before it got to--to wherever it's going.
Bet you anything that was the deacon's one-horse chaise in the poem!" "_Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day ?_" quoted Han.
"Wouldn't that look funny alongside a Rolls-Royce, Perry ?" "It would look funny alongside a flivver," answered the other.
"Say, how far do we have to walk? Seems to me we've done about five miles already." "Rot! We haven't walked more than a mile.
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