Bill gave vent to some sarcastic remarks anent the last speaker's powers of endurance, but otherwise made no comment.
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"Bill says the surface is ironshot," continued the Parson blandly, "and, as I saw a team come into town to-day with about two dozen bicycles for sale, I thought——"
"Man, ye are a thinker, Parson," cried Scottie, "I'll gang away wi' ye the morn if ye like—that is if the machines are no ow'r dear."
"I think we ought to get them, no matter what they cost," I remarked, "for if we do go out they would enable us to cross right over to the Cooper at a pinch, if they did not break down, and the ground was passable."
"Well, I guess I am one of the crowd that goes," announced Hoskins.
"Unt me," cried the German.