beautifully when a plaintive sort of sigh from the near back wheel announced that he really couldn't stand having nails run into him. More delay. Still in about ten minutes we had got the tyre off and the "Stepney" on and away we went again. We were in real plains roads by now dead straight & only slightly undulating. Still we had no more than an exact 40 mins in which to do the 17 miles. The first 3 miles took 10 mins owing to hills & turns & then we did get away. We began reeling??? off mile on mile in 1 minute 55 secs which is 30 miles a hour and a bit over. This went on until 2 miles from Pipariya when a bullock cart slow in getting out of our way caused us to do a sudden swerve and slow up. The swerve strained on of??? the straps of the Stepney & someone heard it go. It was just as well that we stopped as the clamping screws were half undone and if a Stepney comes off while you are doing 30 – well it's unpleasant! So we clamped up and away again. We finally pulled up outside the station at 1.9 for the 1.11 train. It was a lot??? to find that Railway time was 10 mins behind School Time – on which we had been working, but we needed all that 10 mins and a bit more. Then as the train was 20 mins late we just had time to eat the lunch we had ordered at the Dak Bungalow.
The train was very full and we had to get in with a lady & gentleman who curiously turned out to be