Go on as far as you can while this--this machine of yours is wound up." But that was not destined to be far.

From beneath the forward end of the depot-wagon sounded a most alarming creak, a long-drawn, threatening groan.

Winnie S.uttered his favorite exclamation.
"Judas priest!" he shouted.

"There goes that wheel! I've, been expectin' it." He tugged at the right hand rein.

General Jackson, who, having been brought up in a seafaring community, had learned to answer his helm, swerved sharply from the road.