Go
'long, now, an' yo' won't git no oats dish yeah day! No sah!"
and, highly indignant, Eradicate led the now slowly-ambling mule
off to the stable.
"I won't shoot again until you have him shut up, Rad!" laughed
Tom. "I didn't know you were so close when I set off those guns."
"Dat's all right, Mass a Tom," was the reply. "I done called t'
you t' wait, but yo' didn't heah me, I 'spects. But it doan't
mattah, now. Shoot all yo' laik, Boomerang won't run any mo' dis
week. He done runned his laigs off now. Shoot away!"
But Tom was not quite ready to do this. He wanted to see what
effect the first shots had had on his aerial warship, and to
learn whether or not the newly devised recoil check had done what
was expected of it.
"No more shooting right away," called the young inventor. "I
want to see how we made out with the first round. How did she
check up, Ned?"
"Fine, as far as I can tell."
"Yes, indeed," added Lieutenant Marbury. "The recoil was hardly
noticeable, though, of course, with the full battery of guns in
use, it might be more so."
"I hope not," answered Tom. "I haven't used the full strength
of the recoil check yet.
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