Select the correct text in the passage.
One of the purposes of Mark Twain's *Taming the Bicycle*" is to entertain the reader. Which sentence in this
uses humor to achieve this
purpose?
We examined the machine, but it was not in the least injured.
This was hardly believable. Yet the Expert assured me that
was true; in fact, the
examination proved it. was partly to realize, then, how admirably these things are constructed. We applied some Pond's Extract, and resumed. The
Expert got on the OTHER side to shove up this time, but I dismounted on that side, so the result was as before.
The machine was not hurt
We oiled ourselves up again, and resumed. This time the Expert took up a sheltered position behind, but somehow or
other we landed on him again. on
He was full of surprised admiration; said was abnormal She was all right, not a scratch on her, not timber started anywhere. I said it was
wonderful, while we were greasing up, but
he said that when I came to know these steel spider-webs I would realize that nothing but dynamite could
cripple them. Then he limped out to position, and we resumed once more.
This time the Expert took up the position of short-stop, and got man to
shove up behind. We got up: handsome speed, and presently traversed a brick, and I went out over the top of the
ller and landed, head down, on
the instructor's back, and saw the machine fluttering in the air between me and the sun. It was well came down on uS, lor that broke the fall, and it
was not injured.
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