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Three loaded trucks it crushed down, over-ran, and scattered wide in this way, in three successive plunges, and then, rushing on a few yards among chaotic debris, turned slowly on its side, and hurled the driver and fireman over the embankment. The shock received by the people at the station was tremendous. Poor Tipps, standing at his desk, was struck nervously as if by electricity.
For Scottie was one of the few natural two-gun men that Andrew was ever to know. The engineer and the fireman he saw only as two shades before they were whisked out of his view. The train rumbled on; then it went from half speed to a stop with one jerk that brought a cry from the coaches. During the next second there was the successive crashing of couplings as the coaches took up their slack.
She praised the Stoker for this and Zau al-Makan added, "Of a truth, O my sister, this Fireman hath dealt with me in such benevolent wise as would not lover with lass nor sire with son, for that he fasted and gave me to eat, and he walked whilst he made me ride; and I owe my life to him." Said she, "Allah willing, we will requite him for all this, according to our power."
The engine had a little pump on it, as I have told you, and it spurted out real water, with which it was now filled. "Toot! Toot! I'm a fireman, and I'm going to put out a real fire!" cried Arnold. He pressed back the little catch that held the pump from working. There was a whirring sound as the wheels spun around, and then the little rubber hose on the pump of the engine filled with water.
How a man can be ground and twisted, and mauled, and stamped on by a reckless locomotive with a crazy engineer and a drunken fireman, rolled over by box cars, and walked on by elephants, and still live, is beyond me.
"I'll pass you in," the policeman said good naturedly, and he led him forward to the spot where the engines were playing upon the burning houses. "Is it true, mate," he asked a fireman, "that a woman and two children have been burned?" "It's true enough," the fireman said. "The landlady and her children. Her husband was a porter at the railway station, and had been detained on overtime.
The obsequious one appeared, imp-like, at the mention of his name, and received a curt order. "Go and find Engineer McGrath and his fireman. Tell him I want the engine instantly. Move, seh!" Virginia retreated to her state-room. In a few minutes she heard her uncle go out; and shortly afterward the Rosemary's engine shook itself free of the car and rumbled away westward.
When the time came to go to bed, Joe put the Donkey away in the closet with the Noah's Ark, his toy train of cars, the ball he tossed when his legs did not pain him too much, and his other playthings. "Well, how do you like it here?" asked the toy Fireman of the toy train, when the house was all quiet and still and the toys were allowed to do as they pleased.
"That's a pretty little girl of yours, missis," he remarked in a casual way. "That she is," cried Mary, catching up the child and kissing her rosy face all over; "and she's better than pretty she's good, good as gold." "Oh 'top, ma. Let May down, kik! Fire not out yit!" "That's right, never give in, May. Wot a jolly fireman you'd make!" cried Fred, still directing all his energies to the cupboard.
But an instant later the cold night air smote her in the face, from hundreds of hoarse throats a yell of welcome greeted her, and she found herself on the roof, dazed and breathless, and free. At the same moment the lifting fire-ladder reached the sill of the third-story window, and a fireman, shielding his face from the flames, peered into the blazing room.
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