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Just as we were going to sun-down quarters, a boat came alongside with the body of Third Assistant-engineer Cummings, who accidentally shot himself with his gun. Tuesday, Aug. 4th. In the afternoon, at three, the funeral procession started from shore with the body of the deceased engineer.
Then something hit him on the shoulder and he fell backwards into Section D, wildly and vainly clutching at a beam to save himself. "Trevannion! Trevannion!" The voice of Garstin, office-desk theoretician, assistant-engineer Trevannion was clear about that. What he did not realise so clearly was what had happened to himself.
At the end of December he reports to the Treasury a conversation he had had with an assistant-engineer from Roscommon, who told him his belief was, that there were much more provisions in the country than was generally supposed. He had every day, he said, good potatoes at eight shillings a cwt. When the disease appeared, the people who held conacres threw them up, and the potatoes remained undug.
The corps of engineers is modelled on French lines, and is a department of the Ministry of Public Works. The course of study is extremely severe, and the examinations are strict and searching. When a candidate passes, he is appointed assistant-engineer by the Ministry, and he rises in his profession solely by seniority.
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