Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Well, Ned, are you ready Oh, I suppose so, Tom. As ready as I ever shall be. Why, Ned Newton, you're not getting afraid are you And after you've been on so many trips with me No, it isn't exactly that, Tom. I'd go in a minute if you didn't have this new fangled thing on your airship. But how do you know how it's going to work - or whether it will work at all We may come a cropper. The motor cycle came to a stop near a shed, and the two lads, swinging off, looked at each other for a moment.