Tom Swift And His Air Scout
Average rating |
|
1 out of 5
|
Based on 1 Ratings and 1 Reviews |
Book Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE BIG OFFER Working with all the skill he possessed, Tom had got the aeroplane in proper working order again. As has been said, the accident was a trivial one, and had he been alone, or with an ...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE BIG OFFER Working with all the skill he possessed, Tom had got the aeroplane in proper working order again. As has been said, the accident was a trivial one, and had he been alone, or with an experienced aviator, he would have thought little of it. Then, very likely, he would have volplaned to earth and made the repairs there. But he did not want to frighten Mary Nestor, so he fixed the control while gliding along, and made light of it. Thus his passenger was reassured. "Are we all right?" asked Mary through the tube, as they sailed along. "Right as a fiddle," answered Tom, shouting through the same means of communication. "What's that about a riddle?" asked Mary, in surprise at his seeming flippancy at such a time. "I didn't say anything about a riddle-I said we are as fit as a fiddle!" cried Tom. "Never mind. No use trying to talk with the racket this motor makes, and it isn't the noisiest of its kind,either. I'll tell you when we get down. Do you like it?" "Yes, I like it better than I did at first," answered Mary, for she had managed to understand the last of Tom's questions. Then he sailed a little higher, circled about, and, a little later, not to get Mary too tired and anxious, he headed for his landing field. "I'll take you home in the auto," he cried to his passenger. "We could go up to your house this way-in style-if there was a field near by large enough to land in. But there isn't. So it will have to be a plain, every-day auto." "That's good enough for me," said Mary. "Though this trip is wonderful-glorious! I'll go again any time you ask me." "Well, I'll ask you," said Tom. "And when I do maybe it won't be so hard to hold a conversation. It will be more like this," and he shut off the motor and began to glide gently dow...
You must be a member of JacketFlap to add a video to this page. Please
Log In or
Register.
View Victor Appleton's profile