Identifier: stnicholasserial351dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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had, before itwas all over. The photograph shows just thelamps and wheels and the suggestion of a grin-ning face behind the veil of water. Then it was all over but the shouting. Thecar came to a stop some fifty feet from the water,and the steady chug-chug of the still runningengine told us, before we reached it, that thetest had been highly successful from the stand-point of the agent. But before we could askquestions or even get to the car, we all had asudden outburst of laughter. There stood theagent,—his arms outstretched and dripping, hiscollar a limp bit of linen, his shoes, trousers,everything, as wet as if he had been thrown intothe creek. Well,—er,—you did get sprinkled a little,did nt you? observed the one of us with mosthardihood. The agent was wrathy. Sprinkleda bit—sprinkled a bit,—why—here, you come getin this car and we will do it again and you willsee what a sprinkling you will get! It seems that the water arches both ways from 64 HOW HE FORDED THE STREAM 65
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THE NEXT INSTANT THERE WAS A VERITABLE CLOUD-BURST. the motors wheels, which both throw it out andsuck it up, and that the man running the carwas subjected to a regular deluge. The rear

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