Part 5 (1/2)
”Let me down! Let me down, an' I won't say nuffin!”
”An' you let iant's idea of working in the garden
”Yes, yo' kin scatter de dirt seben ways from Sunday fo' all I keers!”
conceded Eradicate Then, as he was lowered to the ground, he and the giant turned and saw Mr Da inventor
”'Scuse an Eradicate, ”but didn't yo' tell uess I did,” admitted Tom Swift
”An' you tell ht it would be a little too ht perhaps you'd like help”
”Hu! Not hiust ”When I git so old dat I cain't spade a garden, den ot to say I was a-spadin' arden, Massa To mess ob bones steps on my side ob de middle an--”
”Him too slow Koku scatter dirt twice tilish was not much better than Eradicate's
”Yes, I see,” said To, Koku, that you finished your part before Eradicate did Well, it was good of you to want to help hirinned at his rival
”At the sa an eye at Mr Daarden work, on account of having done it so many years”
”Ha! Whut I tell yo', Giant!” boasted the colored man It was his turn to suess I'll let Rad finish spading the garden, and you, Koku, can coine parts Mr Da what so heavy Koku not lift!” boasted the giant
”Go on! Lift yo'se'f 'way from heah!” muttered Eradicate as he picked up his dropped spade And then, with a smile of satisfaction, he fell to work in the mellow soil while To heavy et at a certain machine that was stored away in the back of one of the roo inventor ”And now, Mr
Damon, I can listen to you Do you really think you have a new idea in airshi+ps?”
”I really think so, Tom My Whizzer is bound to revolutionize travel in the air Let me tell you what I mean Now cast your mind back How ible balloon through the air? How many ways?”
”Two, as far as I know,” said Tom ”At least there are only two that have proved to be practical”
”Exactly,” said Mr Damon ”One with the propeller, or propellers, in front, and that is the tractor type The other has the propeller in the rear, and that is the pusher type Both good as far as they go, but I have so better”
”What?” asked Tom with a smile
”It's a Whizzer,” said the eccentric old tooth! but that is the best name I can think of for it And, really, the propeller I' does whiz around”
”But are you going to use a tractor or pusher type?” Tom wanted to know
”It's a combination of both,” answered Mr Daet an aeroplane in pretty speedy round, don't you?”
”Yes, of course That's the principle on which an aeroplane rises and keeps aloft, by its speed in the air As soon as that speed stops it begins to fall, or volplane, as we call it”
”Exactly Now, instead of having to depend on the speed of the aeroplane for this, why not depend on the speed of the propeller--in other words, the whizzer?”