The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-12
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Thought: fee of roads In grang
Iers everywhere. Will secure It'll,
except for road purposes. IT'S eve
sweet to see the engineer hoist b.
his own petard. Monopoly, WI
delye beneath thee! Shayne, tn!
sun sets apace! To your tents, {
Israel! Whoop! Whoop! Whoopee
We've got 'em, we've got 'em
Caroline's dad ready to bust al
eight banks to back scheme. Yot
must make good, Theodore. TIL,
Dread Sisters of the thread ant
shears never done nobody the dirt
they'd do me to let you turn me
down. Answer, for the sake OF
divine pity, just one leetle teeney
lpeep!-Napoleon Bonaparte Han.
nibal Miltiades Craighead."
What does he mean." asked
Virginia, "by all this about grants
highways and fee simple? Its
awfully queer"
81 don't know" replied Carson
Some visionary thing"
And who is Gardiner" asked
Virginia.
Mrs. Graybill. Mr.. Waddy's
daughter. Now, listen, Virginia
and watch. She's ready to try.
He threw in the clutch, and the
wings began whirring like grea;
ht,1yoc hIouipo tho cand off tnp
floor into the farthest corners and
setting light things flying in the
tremendous currents of air, sc
that Virginia chung to her hat,
wound her skirts about her legs
and sat on them, in the cage of j
domesticated tornado. Faster and
faster the intersections whirlel
until the aeronef strained upward
on her lashings like FESTIVE
horse. Theodore tipped a Lever
and she leaped forward, stretch
ing the ropes at an angle of forty
five degrees; he reversed it, and
she Stacked backward, as might al
eagle repulsed by foe. Virgins
swung her hat and shouted.
Pull the line on the end o.
that wing" said he, land see i
you can tip her. Pull"
! Virginia walked gingerly for
ward, her dress flying, her ha
iwhisked to the top of the room
dGrasping the flying rope-end, sh
ilpulled downward. The wings set
: tiled slightly, and then, as the gy
roscope-brain felt the depression
the lowered wings lifted as If con
!, sciously rising to load. 1t wa
I marvellous.
"Can't you pull harder?" crie'
: Theodore, bareheaded, his hal
flying TRY"
4 . AYE, aye. sir" cried Virgini
Icheerily, "try it Isl But suppos
/ lose my clothes in the gale?
Haven't many
. Reaching up she pulled hersel
clear of the floor, her strong littl
form swaying like a most charm
, ing pendulum. The enormou
dragon-fly, throwing it's powe
,, into the depressing wing, rode lev
ell, with nine stone weight of soil
American girl dangling from tn
tip of one wing,-a mechanical
paradox. Back and forth sh
swung; until, with muscles weak
: ened, she dropped to the floor. In
stantly, the released side rose
thought too high, the other too
the power; there was momentar
vibration, as the momentum o
the swing was taken out by tn
diferentials, and the boat stood i
: air, as level as a ship in a calm.
"Hurrah!" shouted Theodore
swinging his arms. Never any
Thing like it in the world. Car
: ried you on one wing, and KEEP
level. Hurrah for the Virginia!
; He eased her down, and stepDe
to where Virginia waited, hand
; outstretched, red from the rougI
lrope, hair blown abroad.
: And are you going to name he
: THAT" she cried. "Oh, how per
fectly dear of you!"
Theodore held the chafed hands
: triumph in his face, happy as h
only can be who tastes the frui
of achievement.
"She carried you on one wing!
said he. "She did, didn't she?"
"She did," replied Virginia
"and it made my hands too sor
for squeezing purposes, uncle! Blu
lshe did"
Theodore opened the little re
palms and kissed them, over an
; over again. Mrs. Stott came ii
land saw him doing it.
~ hurt my hands," said Vir
ginia, showing them. "And uncl
is kissing them WELL"
Every kind and self-sacrificing
I'm sure!" replied Mrs. Stott.
; I'm going with you, now" sal
Virginia, taking Mrs. Stott's arm
d nit may be as WE'LL" said Mrs
Stott.
Virginia looked back, rosy, smil
ling, a little reckless. Theodor
: went for Harrod, to help with tn
Launching. They were all excite
nent; for by noon of the next da
. they would have her in the all
/, Mf. Wilmer, outside in the Sickle
back, thought it quite time.