The lad withinside plied his legs with all his might.

The spectators who at first stood still to behold the operation were soon alarmed by the shouts of their companion, who perceived his danger.

The vehicle became quite ungovernable; the velocity increased as it ran down hill.

Fortunately, the boy contrived to jump from his rolling prison before it reached the chalk-pit; but the wheel went on with such velocity as to outstrip its pursuers, and, rolling over the edge of the precipice, it was dashed to pieces.
'The next day, when I came to look for my machine, intending to try it upon some planks, which had been laid for it, I found, to my no small disappointment, that the object of all my labours and my hopes was lying at the bottom of a chalk-pit, broken into a thousand pieces.

I could not at that time afford to construct another wheel of that sort, and I cannot therefore determine what might have been the success of my scheme.' He goes on to say: 'I shall mention a sailing carriage that I tried on this common.