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weight decoys. The box '11 sink all right 

 without any iron. You and Corbin would 

 look well on a red tandem bicycle, Doc- 

 tor; why don't you buy one? That 

 tricycle used by Professor George Lock- 

 hart's elephant Boney would be just the 

 trap, if it were bolted and braced a bit 

 extra." And here Seth and Bradley got 

 into such a scuffling that more than once 

 one or the other must have fallen out of 

 the seat had Corbin or William not laid a 

 hand on this or the other one's shoulder 

 as a sort of support. 



On rolled the merry vehicle at a first- 

 rate speed, the Doctor's bay team gaiting 

 it fresher at every step as it seemed, until 

 the much-despised city district had been 

 left far behind and a wide rural view lay 

 on all sides and as far ahead as the .eye 

 could see. 



The pretty towns of Richmond Hill, 

 Jamaica, Springfield, Rosedale, Valley 

 Stream, Lynbrook, Millburn, and Free- 

 port were all journeyed through in their 



