Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright

Author:Elizabeth Enright [Enright, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales & Folklore, General, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9780152022723
Google: 6KW91nkoEOoC
Amazon: 1593161336
Publisher: Harcourt, Incorporated
Published: 2000-03-14T13:00:00+00:00

Mr. Payton turned the stubborn crank a number of times, and the Machine came to life with convulsive shudderings; it almost danced, and was very loud about it, too.

"Mufflers rusted off," shouted Mr. Payton above the din.

"Never had it fixed. Kind of like the racket."

"Neat!" shouted Julian. "Porsh, isn't this neat?"

"Neat!" agreed Portia at the top of her lungs.

"Good-by, children, come soon again," called Mrs.

Cheever, waving her green umbrella.

The Machine snorted proudly and started forth. Mr.

Payton squeezed the bulb of the brass horn, and it gave a loud trumpet-blast.

There was a roof on the Machine but no sides; the rain came lashing in; and though it did not achieve a speed above twenty miles an hour, there was a full-blooded vigor and clamor about its progress that made it more exciting to ride in than the smoothest modern car, the children thought.

Mr. Payton was shouting something.

"Beg your pardon, sir?" bellowed Julian politely.

"I say it will be a pleasure to meet your family," bellowed Mr. Payton in reply.

"Oh," said Julian. He glanced back at Portia. Heck, then the secret will be broken, he was thinking.

Mr. Payton drove along a rutted road that was new to them. It wound through deep woods and emerged after ten minutes at another point on the Creston Turnpike.

As other cars swept by them, Portia and JuUan saw the gaping faces of the passengers; saw the children, transfixed, staring back at them from rear windows. "Get a horse!"

shouted one boy, driving by.

Mr. Payton was beaming. "I enjoy the fuss," he confessed.

"The Machine always causes a fuss."

They enjoyed it, too, and Julian was trying to imagine how his mother's face would look when she witnessed their arrival. But as luck would have it, she was not there when they drove up; in desperation she had taken the little boys to lOl

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