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"You see the 'Pollard' taking the wind out of our teeth, don't you?" "Yes," Hal admitted, looking more puzzled. "Do you think our engines are doing the topnotch of their best?" asked Benson. "Yes; for Williamson is a crackerjack machinist. He knows our engines as well as any man alive could do." "Do you think it would do any good for you to go below, Hal?"
You will never gain anything if you are content with being a sloppy operator since above everything else radio messages must be correct. That is their chief value. Therefore, if after trying with all your might you find you cannot qualify as a topnotch, high-speed man be content to drop into the class below and be an accurate, slower operator.
He hires a good crew at topnotch wages, and puts in his time plannin' irrigatin' ditches, experimentin' with fertilizers, doin' the seed testin', and readin' government reports; even has a farm bookkeeper. Then when cold weather comes, instead of turnin' off his help, he springs his side line, maybe workin' up the wood lot into shippin' crates, or developin' a stone quarry.
There were sibilant, whispered conversations about a mislaid petticoat with a mechlin hem; drawers were searched and the missing garment triumphantly unearthed; silk mitts were discussed, discarded; the white shoes real buck and a topnotch article forced on. At last Clare was exhibited in the room that had been hers.
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