Lloyd Osbourne

Name: Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6
Author: Lloyd Osbourne

Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

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“Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6”, published in 1906, is a work by Lloyd Osbourne. It explores elements such as Marsden, cough and carburetor.

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ Marsden deprecatorily, as though he didn't want to shame us by his superiority. "It's about the most effective way of killing a gas engine I can think of."
"Let's put it back and make sure you are right," said papa, still unable to believe the good news.
Well, of course, with a little tickling she went off like a shot—with a great big honest chug-chug that warmed one's heart to hear it. After you have been stuck for hours, I don't know any sweeter music than an engine that has suddenly made up its mind to reform, and take you home. ”

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ So we all sat there in the most awful gloom, and said things about that engine that ought to have made it squirm. Papa swore he had never liked autos, had never approved of them, and had only bought one under an insane compulsion. Said he had known only one human being who could make a car go, and that was Albert; and rubbed in horse, horse, horse, and gave a list of the things he'd eat, from his hat to a pair of gum boots, if he'd ever allow himself to be caught out again without Albert. ”

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ He cranked and cranked, and still nothing happened to speak of, except a poor little cough when once or twice she started. I suspected it meant too little gasoline, and told him so; a thin mixture always stops with a cough, and an over-rich one with a dull, heavy sound. But papa, with the dreary thoroughness of a railroad president, tried out the primary circuit, then the secondary, then the buzzer, and by that time anything you said to him he took as an insult. It was disturbing not to be certain whether this was part of Mr. Marsden's plan, or a horrible accident that might spoil everything. ”

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ Perhaps it doesn't sound very funny now, but we roared over it at the time, because we were all keyed up, and in the humor to make a joke of anything. And it was most exhilarating to whiz through the pitchy black roads, and think how, only a few minutes before, we had been shivering like lost souls beside two tons of refractory iron. ”

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ Papa had no shame left, and held on to him like a life belt. He'd hardly let him go back to his own car to order his chauffeur to follow, and was on pins and needles lest he'd never come back. And the things he said in that interval! Mr. Marsden's ears must have tingled. I never saw papa so worked up over anybody in his life, and naturally I added my little mite, and mamma threw in hers. It was a regular Marsden boom, with all of us trying to outdo the other, as though there was a prize for the one who could say the nicest things about him. ”

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ The simplest adjustments are troublesome to make at night, and take ten times longer. You lose your tools, burn your fingers, and gradually work up to a state of fiendish exasperation. Papa took out the four plugs, connected them up, and then thought the batteries had given out because they didn't spark. It was as much as my life was worth to tell him he hadn't ground them properly, and at first he nearly snapped my head off. Don't think I'm blaming him. A gas engine would try a saint ”

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Lloyd Osbourne, Three Speeds Forward — Chapter 6 (1906)

“ Papa won easily by talking the loudest and banging on the mud guard to emphasize his
"'You and I have got to be friends!'"
remarks, indicating that he was going to spend the rest of his life in being good to Mr. Marsden.
"I didn't know there were men like that left!" he exclaimed. "It makes you feel that human nature has been misrepresented; and he's so unaffected and generous that you'd almost think the favor was on our side. ”

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