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"What do you call that?" he asked, taking it from my hand. It was an aluminum putter of my own design, and I have won many a game with it. I told him what it was. "Looks like a brake shoe on the new-model hand-cars," he said, swinging it viciously with one hand. "How far can you knock one of those little pills with it?" "I see that you do not play golf," I said, rather offended at his manner.
.007 could have carried the switching-loco round the yard in his tender, but he felt grateful for even this little word of consolation. "We don't use hand-cars on the Pennsylvania," said the Consolidation. "That er peanut-stand is old enough and ugly enough to speak for himself." "He hasn't bin spoken to yet. He's bin spoke at. Hain't ye any manners on the Pennsylvania?" said the switching-loco.
Indeed, the scene on the Simpang Road about three in the afternoon, when the merchants are returning to their offices after the midday siesta, resembles that on Fifth Avenue at the rush hour, the broad thoroughfare being literally packed from curb to curb with vehicles of every description: the ramshackle little victorias known as mylords, the high, two-wheeled dog-carts, with their seats back to back, called sados, the two-pony cabs termed kosongs, creaking bullock carts with wheels higher than a man, hand-cars and rickshaws hauled by dripping coolies, and other coolies staggering along beneath the weight of burdens swinging from the carrying-poles called pikolans, and every make and model of motor-cars from ostentatious, self-important Rolls-Royces to busybody Fords.
Where railroads pass through the National Forests, rangers operate motor cars and hand-cars over the tracks in their patrol work. Launches are used in Alaska and on some of the forests where there are large lakes, to enable the fire fighters and forest guardians to cover their beats quickly.
The Most Extraordinary and Astounding Adventure of the War The Most Daring Undertaking that Yankees ever Planned or Attempted to Execute Stealing an Engine Tearing up the Track Pursued on Foot, on Hand-Cars, and Engines Overtaken A Scattering The Capture The Wonderful Energy of Messrs. Fuller, Murphy and Cain Some Reflections, &c., &c.
Their trucks are about half as large as those on the hand-cars we see flying along our railroad tracks at home, worked by gangs of Italian laborers. On some of the trucks there is only a bench, others are shaded by awnings, and a few have carriage-lamps and cushioned seats and carpets. Each of them is a private conveyance; there is not one which can be hired by the public.
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