文档介绍：TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT or The Speediest Car on the Road
TOM SWIFT AND HIS
ELECTRIC RUNABOUT
or The Speediest Car on
the Road
VICTOR APPLETON
1
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT or The Speediest Car on the Road
CHAPTER I
TOM HOPES FOR A PRIZE
"Father," exclaimed Tom Swift, looking up from a paper he was
reading, "I think I can win that prize!"
"What prize is that?" inquired the aged inventor, gazing away from a
drawing of plicated machine, and pausing in his task of making
some intricate calculations. "You don't mean to say, Tom, that you're going
to have a try for a government prize for a submarine, after all."
"No," not a submarine prize, dad," and the youth laughed. "Though
our Advance would take the prize away from almost any other under-water
boat, I imagine. No, it's another prize I'm thinking about."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I see by this paper that the Touring Club of America has offered
three thousand dollars for the speediest electric car. The tests are e
off this fall, on a new and specially built track on Long Island, and it's to
be an endurance contest for twenty-four hours, or a race for distance, they
haven't yet decided. But I'm going to have a try for it, dad, and, besides
winning the prize, I think I'll take Andy Foger down a peg.
"What's Andy been doing now?"
"Oh, nothing more than usual. He's always mean, and looking for a
chance to make trouble for me, but I didn't refer to anything special He has
a new auto, you know, and he boasts that it's the fastest one in this country.
I'll show him that it isn't, for I'm going to win this prize with the speediest
car on the road."
"But, Tom, you haven't any automobile, you know," and Mr. Swift
looked anxiously at his son, who was smiling confidently. "You can't be
going to make your motor-cycle into an auto; are you?"
"No, dad."
"Then how are you going to take part in the prize contest? Besides,
electric cars, as far as I know, aren't s