"Why don't you go at it?" cried Ned to his "friend, who
was peering through the observation slot in the tower."
"I'm getting in good position," Tom answered. "Or rather,
the worst position I can find. I want to give the tank a
good try-out, and I'm going at the barn on the assumption
that this is in enemy country and that I can't pick and
choose my advance.
"So I want to come up through that gully, and go at the
barn from the long way. That will be the worst possible way
I could do it, and if old Tank A stands the gaff I'll know
she's a little bit nearer all right."
"I think she's all right as she is!" asserted Ned in a
yell, for just then Tom signaled for more speed, and the
consequent increase in the rattling and banging noises made
it correspondingly difficult for talk to be heard.
The big machine now tipped into the little gully spoken of
by Tom. This meant a dip downward, and then a climb out
again and an attack on the barn going uphill and at an
angle. But, as the young inventor had said, it would make a
severe test and that was what he wanted to give his
ponderous machine.
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