Then taking a light tack hammer we battered
down the end of the rivet onto the washer. Care was taken to do this
hammering very lightly, otherwise the end would have been bent over
instead of being flattened.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE LAND YACHT.
Only one thing of importance occurred between our Christmas holidays and
Eastertide: this was Bill's invention of the tricycle sailboat or land
yacht. We had returned to school with sailing on the brain. Our skate sail
served us well enough while there was any ice, but as spring came on we
wished we had our canoe with us, or even the old scow to sail on the lakes
near the school. Once we seriously considered building a sailboat, but the
project was given up, as we had few facilities for such work. But Bill
wasn't easily baffled, and I wasn't surprised to have him come tearing
into the room one day, yelling, "I've got it! I've got it!" In his hands
were two bicycle wheels, which I recognized as belonging to a couple of
bicycles we had discarded the year before.
"What are you going to do with them?" I inquired.
"I'm going to make a tricycle sailboat."
"What?"
"A tricycle sailboat, a land boat, or anything you've a mind to call it. I
mean a boat just like our ice boat only on bicycle wheels instead of
skates.
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