Nate and Augustus and the professor got out the sections and fitted 'em together.
The buildin's on Ozone was all joined together--first the house, then the ell, then the wash-rooms and big sheds, and, finally, the barn.
There was doors connectin', and you could go from house to barn, both downstairs and up, without steppin' outside once.
"'Twas in the barn that they built what Whiskers called the 'flyin' stage.' 'Twas a long chute arrangement on trestles, and the idea was that the aeroplane was to get her start by slidin' down the chute, out through the big doors and off by the atmosphere route to glory.

I say that was the IDEA.

In practice she worked different.
"Twice the professor made proclamations that everything was ready, and twice they started that flyin' machine goin'.

The fust time Dixland was at the helm, and him and the aeroplane dropped headfust into the sandbank just outside the barn.

The machine was underneath, and the pieces of it acted as a fender, so all the professor fractured was his temper.