Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle; Or, Fun and Adventures on the Road

eaned his motor-cycle against the

got a whole bone in mah body! Good landy, but I suttinly am in a aw

isn't hurt a bit. But why can't you

ed the colored man. "Yo' doan't ca

y n

dat if I turn mah head around it suah will twist offen mah body. No, sah! No, indeedy,

e you hard, for I had almost stopped my machine. Try to get up. I'

"It was mah fault fer gittin in de road. But dat mule Boomerang

ang?" asked Tom, wondering

em Australian black mans what go around wid a circ

've see

egin wid, an' anudder t'ing, yo' can't never tell when yo' start

oper name. But why don

o' t'in

By the way, wha

ln Sampson, but folks most ginnerally calls me Eradicate Sampson, an'

That's a queer name, too.

said it were fitten an' proper, an' I kept it eber sence. Yais, sah, I'se Eradicate Sampson, at yo' service. Yo' ain't

king this would be as good a means as any of placating the darky. "But come, n

speakin' ob?" and Eradicate Sampson, now that there seemed

Tom, glad to find that the accide

Whar did yo' say, yo' ha

lways something that needs doing at our

and Eradicate walked back to wher

ght not to offer Eradicate some money as compensation for knocking him into the air, when he not

doing that f

"Ef I didn't it would be right on to de heels ob Boomerang, an' whene

see you have one on the wagon. Use th

"But yo' doan't know dat brake. It's wuss dan none at all. It doa

ected with the brake bar. It was a simple matter to adjust it by changing a single bolt, and this Tom did with tools he took from the bag on his mot

ke will work now, and hold the wagon on any hill. You won't nee

s dat yo' said?" and Eradicate lean

dn't have the

ain't dat kind ob a wagon. I onct drove a livery rig, but dat were some years ago. I ain't worked fo' de livery stable

or no livery, your brake will work now. I guess you're all right. Now don't forget to come around and do some whitewashing," and seeing that the colored ma

e and then suddenly applied the brake. It stopped

darky to Tom, who was waiting the result o

glad

ure-man when it comes t' fixin' wagons

d-by, Eradicate. I'll look

the colored man and his rig. As he passed the load of fence

I were hit by dat monstrousness machine, an' not hurted! M

to change, and that is the gasolene and spark controls. I don't like them the way they are. I wan

e, and then, heading the machine toward home, he put on all the spe

Swift with a smile as he looked

along in great shape.

id you? The men who are trying to get my

Jackson Abraham Lincoln Sampson, otherwise known as Rad Sampson, and I engaged him

Mr. Swift, thinking

old of the

some dirt in the boiler shop that needs eradicating, and I think he can do it. But din

hat he meant to do to improve his motor-cycle. His father offer

ith his pencil he began to draw a

imed Mrs. Baggert. "Whatever are you d

I upset my tea?" asked

ecloth. Pencil-marks are so hard to g

m, here is the way I would do that," and substituting the bac

terestedly, when Mrs. Baggert, who was taking

cting a visit

Why?" asked the

going in the machine shop,

ouse. As they reached the yard they saw a man emerging from the building where Mr. Swift was constructing his turbine mot

want?" call

Mr. Swift and Tom he made a jump to on

poke Tom. "I wond

d his father, and as the two inventors reached the box the man sprang from behind it and down the yard to

me of my plans!" cried Mr

roused their suspicions, while Mr. Swift entered the m