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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1928.

NOTHING LIKE A CHANGE.

From a Mosquito's Point of View.

BY FRED GILLETT.

(By arrangement with the "Morris Owner")

Here I am again. You may have thought I was dend, but a mosquito inkoa a lot of killing. For instance, this spring the College of Peatology organised a raid in Epping Forest against my kind red, sending an

of boy acouts to spray stagnant pogla with Insect-killer.

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I have been through it. I am ensc-hardened I have fallen into a petról tank, got sucked through the carburetter into the enghic, and forcibly expelled through the exhaust pipe. I admit I лт а nuisance. I have been described as "the arch-onomy of silk stock- inga." I find ankles quite to my taste. Yet I have one good point, You must agree that in getting inside an engine and recounting my personal experiences thereof I am obtaining a mosquito's-eye vlow of Internal combustion which you could not obtain your

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A Friendly Overture, This summer I got into close tough with a nice young fellow

Noises Off and On.

having no wings, managed to leave

incandescent anatomy between the two gear wheels now in mesh. Egbert let the clutch in and both shafts began to revolve.

a rorrid rasping noise. I think he does not realise that a gear a small but brilliant portion of his box is not a musical box, At one time 1 tried thrusting my proboscis into his ear avery time he produced this genr-changing discordance, hoping that he might feel it, as it wore, as the prick of conscience. But no. Ho seem- ed too thick-skinned, "and in my black list I wrote him down as Inrd-Boiled Egbert.

My curiosity about the gear box noise was piqued, so I deter- mined to get right inside the trouble, and, if possible, cure It or him.

All Change

At the same time I saw that our position on the seond, gear wheel was threatened. Another gear wheel was 'sliding towards us (or wa to it). I shouted to Meredith to jump clear, and wo landed on a third pinión Just in time. There was a harsh grating noise like an argument between

who was satisfactory in nearly every way. He dressed well and. It is not so easy, even for atwo cornerakos. Egbert had got. had a nice taste in silk socks. mosquito, to gain admittance to into second. Meredith, was slow But we all have our faults--like gearbox, but by waiting my in jumping and came in a bad crack tennis players and he opportunity I managed to slip. in second, for he left some more of had his. He had no car for music, with, lubrication. As I could not his iniminous anatomy on the My own iden of melody is a quiet, carry out my survey in the dark second gear wheel. Before I had monotonous hum. I have hovered I persunded my old friend, the Ume to usk poor old Meredith round his car on a balmy sum-glow-worm to accompany me as whether the change was doing him mer's evening, humming. my an inspection lamp. He objected good there was another mucous evensong, and his only response that he was feeling fat and unfit grating sound.. I flew to the only has been a alap at the lobe of his and flabby. Said he needed sun- remaining, pluion (it must have treatment. Asked if a been the reveras). Egbert had gar and an exclamation, "Drany that gnat," or words to that gearbox could be guaranteed as a forced his way into top by shoer effect

health resort for glow-worms, brute force. assured him that he needed a I called out, “Meredith, where change, that I would see him are you? How do you like these Nevertheless, Egbert Gritwell through his trouble and get him sudden changes? But answar he came there none, and then that is my mosquito owner's well-that is, well-ofled. "So name) must fancy himself as a agreed. It was tight fit squeez-noticed that the six gear wheels jazz mufelan, for he is always ing him inside the gear-chamber, were all evated with a kind of

eventually he succumbed liminous paste. producing weird noises from the but

That was interior of his car; sometimes to pressure, and I was able to any Meredith.. He had got himself a metallic clink from the engine, to him "Meredith, we're in. into a mesh; been filmed flat, and sometimes a squeak on the brakes,

was now distributed irretrievably, Fut his chief performance. of

The unfortunalo-accident entirely Meredith's (an unusual name instrumental torture is on the

spoilt him as a glow-worm, but for a glow-worm, isn't it 7) face added considerably to his value gearbox. Whenever he comes to it up. In fact, the whole of his a steep gradient he pulls that

as the gear wheels ever with the knob on it, causing body lit up and showed us the an inspection lamp,

interior of tho gear-chamber,

conted with a thin, phosphores traversed by two parallel shafts, cent vencer, consisting of the hearing various sized pinions. Inte Meredith, I was able to see That, I explained to Meredith, was exactly what happened when the orchestration. We took our Egbert jerked the gear lever-on sents on one of the pinions, and I rather what ought to have happen- warned Meredith that, we mighted, but didn't. have to shift our porch suddenly when the music started, because after the event, and it was soon Of course, it is 'easy to be wied As soon as Egbert moved the gear obvious to me, as it is to you, that lever two of those pinions would the inharmonious-blacksmithnoises get into mesh, and if we were not which Egbert produced every time careful we should get into a meshhe changed a gear were due to

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shaft slowed down and a little pinion on one shaft sild quietly terrible wear and tear to the towards a big pinion on another, delicate dentistry of the gearbox's saw or danger and told teeth he would have paused before Meredith to jump to the next setting a gearbox's teeth on edge.

inion before we were reduced to The off in the gearbox was speckled In its evolutionary journey a pulp of glow-worm and mosquito with minute particles of metal that from "horse carriage" to luxurious mincemeat. We were just in tinte had been scraped off the pinions, specs the motor car has collected at least I was. Meredith, being thought to myself, "Oh, would and utilised many incidentals, sluggish in his movements and some power the gifbie, give Egbert amongst them a series of names to see the inside of a gearbox an a describing body stylen which have mosquito sees 1!"

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I had seen enough. Besides, It was getting dark, for the glowing remains of Meredith were losing their luminosity. I made my way out by crawling along the engine shaft and slipping out by the clitch the next time it was with- drawn from the flywheel.

On the Knee.

I was all over oil, oil mixed with atoms of steel. I could not speak to Egbert Gritwell, but I could at least give him a souvenir of my visit, so I went and sat on his knee te dry my wings. Later, while I was having a double' Scotch, so to speak, off his unkle (for he wore lartan socks that day) he looked down and saw a patch of gritty oil on the knee of his new light. grey suit, and he made a few very cursory remarks.

The gearbox had, as it were like a curse, come home to roosi on his new trousers. If that blot of oil could have spoken it would have said: "Egbert Gritwell, you are a vory particular chap about your clothes, and would never wear trousers frayed at the edges; why then do you wear a car with frayed edges on its gear wheels?

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