. Roy Blakeley's bee-line hike . I hope we dont get seasick. In that car were two seats facing each other. 98 ROY BLAKELEYS Those cars were not made for as many as nine • people, but we managed to crowd in all floor of our car was about two or three feetfrom the ground and it swung like a swing. Itwas nice in there. Looking up through all thewire-work we could see the car at the top swing-ing. Id like to be in that one, one of the fellowssaid. If you were in that one it would be this one,I told him. 1 What are you talking about? Pee-wee said. Im talking about whether anything can bes
. Roy Blakeley's bee-line hike . I hope we dont get seasick. In that car were two seats facing each other. 98 ROY BLAKELEYS Those cars were not made for as many as nine • people, but we managed to crowd in all floor of our car was about two or three feetfrom the ground and it swung like a swing. Itwas nice in there. Looking up through all thewire-work we could see the car at the top swing-ing. Id like to be in that one, one of the fellowssaid. If you were in that one it would be this one,I told him. 1 What are you talking about? Pee-wee said. Im talking about whether anything can besomething else, I told him. He said, I suppose thats what you call mentaldigestion. Its logic, I told him. If we were in thatcar, the nine of us, it would come down here,wouldnt it? Dont you know what the attrac-tion of gravity is? It never attracted me, he said. The heaviest part of a thing goes down, Isaid. If you were up there youd only comedown here. The top car is the bottom is something different. Up mean*. JUST THEN, OUT CAME ONE OF THOSE OLD BOARDS AND THERE STOOD THE BLACK Blakeleys Bee-Line Hike. Page 91 THE NE\V YORKPUBLIC UBKARY ASTOK, LENOX ANDT1LDBN FOUNDATIONS« L BEE-LINE HIKE 99 where youre not. See? What do we care? We all sat there with our heads thrown backlooking at the car away up above us. See how it rocks? Dorry said. I bet itsgood and breezy up there. Why dont the others rock? Hunt asked. Search me, I said. Theres nothing on either side of that oneat the top, Westy said. There isnt even muchof the wheel up there to break the force of thewind. Correct, I said. Take two credits—andone cookie. Here. There isnt any such thing as the top of awheel, Dorry said. Sure there is, I told him; the part thatsat the top is the top. The part thats at the top of what? he cameback at me. I should worry, I said. Dont you thinkIVe got wheels enough in my head without both-ering about a ferris-wheel? So then we all started singing that crazy songt
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