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The canoe and duffel went across the carry slung upon a set of wheels. Jerrard rode in the low-backed middle seat of a muddy buck-board. The wheels ran against boulders, grated off with indignant "chuckering" of axle-boxes, hobbled over stumps and plowed through "honey-pots" of mud. "For goodness' sake," gasped Jerrard, holding desperately to the seat, "why don't you get into the road?"
"Well, then, do you understand these?" said I, touching the patent axle-boxes with my cane. He shook his head. "Then who does, here?" "Ah! Michael understands them perfectly." "Then bring him here," said I. In a few minutes, a little shrewd old fellow, with a smith's apron, made his appearance, and introduced himself as M. Michael.
"Well, then, do you understand these?" said I, touching the patent axle-boxes with my cane. He shook his head. "Then who does, here?" "Ah! Michael understands them perfectly." "Then bring him here," said I. In a few minutes, a little shrewd old fellow, with a smith's apron, made his appearance, and introduced himself as M. Michael.
Taking a train of 100 tons, with engine and tender weighing 75 tons, or 175 tons gross, the first question to determine will be the train resistance, and with reference to this we much want careful experiments on the subject, like those which Sir Daniel Gooch made in 1848, on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, which are even now the standard authority; the general use of oil axle-boxes and long bogie coaches, irrespective of other improvements, would render this course desirable.
At the back of the enclosure was drawn up a formidable array of carts and carriages, varying as much in quality and character as did their owners. There was the squire's landau rubbing axle-boxes with Jem Burton's modest moke-cart; and there Viscount Birdsaye's flaring barouche side by side with the red-wheeled wagon of Kenmuir.
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