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Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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station. I started afterthem realizing that the party ought not to beseparated and that it was up to me to do somesprinting. In the meantime the boys had runthe car into the courtyard, much to the con-sternation of the pigs and chickens, shut thepower off, jumped out into the street like wildmen and were sprinting after me down the road.This was enough for the little town of Dunleer.It was evidently the sensation of the year andthe doorways of every one of the two scorehouses of the place were soon filled with womenand children watching the race for the station,and wondering, I suppose, what sort of crazypeople had struck the town. Before any of usreached the station the train had pulled in andwhen we got there our dismay was doubled whenwe saw that we had to climb up a stairway,cross the tracks on an elevated walk and godown on the other side. In the meantime wewere yelling like Comanche Indians to hold thetrain, realizing that it was the last chance to getout of town that night. 244
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The Irish cottage is of a type quite its own.Four walls, a thatched roof, a door, two win-dows and some whitewash. jfrom J?el!as;t to ©utilin Then it occurred to me that the boys had notbeen told what hotel we were going to in Dublinand would not know where to find us. But justas the train started they came rushing down theplatform, having violated a strictly enforced lawby jumping down on the tracks and climbing upon the other side at the rear of the train. Theywere giving vent to such vociferous yells to attractattention that the guard held the train, openedthe door and let them into our compartment,where they tumbled into seats utterly exhausted.We had covered half the distance of forty milesto Dublin before they got back sufficient breathto speak intelligently. Then we realized thatwe had left the car at an unknown place andin addition to our trunk on the rear, there werein the tonneau a number of bundles contain-ing linen, Irish tweeds, etc., which we hadpurchased in Belfast. By

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