Life — January 27, 1927 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Life LiFE’s Polar Expedition By Robert Benchley Special Correspondence from the Lave: Polar Bicycle M t. KISCO, NEW YORK, Jan- 472% ary 2ist—At a meeting of the oldee members of the expedition last night it was voted to ask Bobby for his resignation, not in any spirit nger but simply because it was that he wasn’t in sympathy with tims and policies of those in com- nd ieut.-Commander Connelly s elected to inform Bobby and to that he got his carfare back to ale. Sobby had antici} however, by res hook and was R hone with one of the Barry children in the Barrys’ leaving a note to the effect that he was pretty tired of the whole thing and doubted whether the expedition would reach the Pole at all because of having so many fat men on it. And so ends the first really un- fortunate episode of our trip. Bobby grows older he probably acquire more repression and learn that individual whims must sometimes give way to the common good. I also hope that he starts growing tall pretty soon. ated our action, ing on his own y on his way W ITH the discordant element out of the way, the next thing to do was to plan for our hop-off. We still have quite a distance to go before we even get in sight of the Pole and we must be moving. » a mecting was called in the Barrys’ study, to which Mr. Barry was, e2-officio, invited, as it was thought that he might have some sugge very first suggestion was ex- ellent; it was, in part, to concoct an eggnog, a hot egg- He had some y good eggs, he said, and added that that was one of the vivantages of living the country—you { good eggs. This was voted on, and it was decided that Barry was So the egg- as made hot nd the meeting colled to order. “AS LIEUT.-COMMANDER CON WAS ACTUALLY HOLDING Expedition. En route. ut-Commander Connelly said that we ought to decide how we were to overcome the retarding action of deep snow on our wheels. We have made several trial spins around the house here, just to see that our cycles were in good order, and found (a) that they were not, and (b) that even if they had been, the snow would have made any kind of progress at all very difficult, As Lieut.-Commander Connelly said, “It is almost as if some one were actually holding the wheels back !" ROM there the got around to cases in which wheels actually had been held back by some unseen force, but nobody had ever heard of such cases. Ensign Ther- maline said that he knew of a case once where a man with hypnotic power had put a friend under a spell and made it impossible for him to move his hand av from his fa Mr. Barry hsked whose face it was the man’s hand was on, his own or the hypnotizer’s, and Ensign Ther- ine said that he had never thought discussion THE SELLY SAID, ‘IT 18 ALMOST AS IF SOME ONE WHEELS BACK! “so WE DID ‘THE ROYAL PURPLE’ FoR HER. to inquire but that he could get the man on the telephone in a jiffy and find out. We all said that it would be interesting to know. So a tele- phone book was sent for and Ensign Thermaline set about looking up his friend's number. While this was going on, we got back to the business of the expedi- tion and the question of when we should start on. Our route lies pretty fairly straight ahead of us, on up through Westchester County to Massa- chusetts, then on up through New mpshire to Car and from there to the Pole. “It ought to be very pretty up around Williams- time said nder Connelly, “That's where Williams College is.” Every one agreed to this and it was remem- bered that the Williams song, “The Royal (Cont. on page 2+) ai comicbooks.com