. St. Nicholas [serial] . nd in very shortorder made the militantfellow look as though he would be glad to surrender. However, theumbrella soon showed its spirit again whenWill held it up in front of the opened ovalwindow, for it suddenly whizzed round andround in his hands like mad. Now this wasexactly what Will had wanted it to do, and sotickled was he over the result that he unfoldedhis plans to Harry and Paul, so that both boyscould assist him in carrying out his schemes. What a lot of fun lads do have, to be sure,when they get on the track of a real good ideaand are enthusiastically worki
. St. Nicholas [serial] . nd in very shortorder made the militantfellow look as though he would be glad to surrender. However, theumbrella soon showed its spirit again whenWill held it up in front of the opened ovalwindow, for it suddenly whizzed round andround in his hands like mad. Now this wasexactly what Will had wanted it to do, and sotickled was he over the result that he unfoldedhis plans to Harry and Paul, so that both boyscould assist him in carrying out his schemes. What a lot of fun lads do have, to be sure,when they get on the track of a real good ideaand are enthusiastically working it out! Thebusy occupants of this garret paid not the leastattention to the lowering darkness, nor to theangry rumblings of the approaching thunder,until a vivid flash of lightning made them allfeel as though they might be occupants of anelectric light globe. Stop work? No ; they didnot even think of stopping; to the contrary,they actually enjoyed the fun of adding to theracket by banging away the harder. The % ^««l^. THE OLD-UMBRELLA MOTOR thunder boomed, the wind blew, the rainthrashed on the roof, and all at once the littleoval window, which Will had forgotten to se-curely fasten, shot wide open, so that the gale,rushing full on to the old umbrella, which wasnow set up in position and attached to a trainof shoe-box cars, made it whizz around like arunaway catharine-wheel. Then such a shout-ing and racket as followed you never heard. 1104 A BOY AND AN OLD UMBRELLA. [Oct. The shoe-box train got to going at such a By means of very simple devices Will made speed that the caboose was flung clear off its the black umbrella serve as the motive power couplings, so that it landed up in the paste-pot. for running all sorts of things. Among the Numerous tin cans suddenly descended from most novel of these I noted his scheme for fly-
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