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Show The Fearless Farmer. "I dined with Glenn H. Curtlss at Rheims in aviation week," said u member of the Aero club as he waited wait-ed on a Hoboken pier for his baggage to be passed. "I complimented Curtiss on his daring. dar-ing. He has always been daring. He did his mile on a motorcycle, you know, in 26 seconds at Ormond. "Curtiss said that In motorcycling and In flying fear must be put aside. He told me about a Kansas farmhand who'd have made a splendid flyer. "Curtiss said he once came upon this farmhand at the top of a long, steep, dangerous hill. He had an old-fashioned old-fashioned safety bicycle, and he knelt beside it, taking off the chain. " 'What's the matter?' Curtisa aaked. "'Nothin',' drawled the farmhand, calmly. 'I'm jest takin' this here j chain off to freewheel down the hill." 1 |