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"At three dollars a day, that would hire nearly a thousand track labourers for thirty days. A thousand men could tamp a lot of ballast in a month, Martin." "That they could, sir," came dolefully. Then Garrity, the old lump in his throat, waited to be excused, and backed from the office. That rotary snow plough had been his own, his pet idea and it had been wrong!
"Well," said Ned, "instead of ballast, I'm going to carry reserve hydrogen with me." "And is that so difficult?" asked the Major. "Impossible, if you try to carry material to make the gas," answered the boy. "And so you are going to carry it in liquid form?" "I'm going to try, although the making of liquid hydrogen is, so far, pretty much a theory.
I was meant to understand that this was exactly what he had expected. After another interval the doctor said: You are going to do this traveller a favour then, Hrolfur? Oh, well, the boat won't mind taking him. In other words, I was to be nothing but so much ballast. Don't you think it's going to be tricky landing there in Mular Creek? Hrolfur straightened up, putting his hand to his back.
He had our boat out of the water, cleaned and repainted its bottom, made a trifling alteration about the centre-board, overhauled the running gear, and sat up nearly all of Saturday night sewing on a new and much larger sail. So large did he make it, in fact, that additional ballast was imperative, and we stowed away nearly five hundred extra pounds of old railroad iron in the bottom of the boat.
The entrance is so ridiculously small. I shall only stick and fill it up. Why did I ever come? Oh, why did I come at all? 'Better stay where you are, lady, the Guard was saying. 'You're good ballast. You can keep the train down. That's something. Steady thinking's always best, you know.
"That is because 'education' is mistaken for the giving of information without training, as we are finding out in England," said Mr. Lyon. "Or that it is dangerous to awaken the imagination without a heavy ballast of principle," said Mr. Morgan. "That is a beautiful sentiment," Margaret exclaimed, throwing back her head, with a flash from her eyes. "That ought to shut out women entirely.
The men stowed themselves as ballast in the bottom. The wind was strong from the north, and we travelled at about five miles per hour, the lake expanding as we rounded a promontory until it attained a width of about half a mile. Following the course of the lake for about five miles, we found a river flowing directly into the long-sought channel.
The captain stood up inside of the conning tower, with his eyes on a level with the little thick glass windows, and in front of him was the wheel connecting with the rudder that steered the craft right and left; almost at his feet was stationed the man who controlled the diving-rudders; farther aft was the engineer, all ready for the word to start his motor; another man controlled the ballast tanks, and another watched the electric motor and batteries.
For this purpose steel armor 1½ in. thick had been worked along the outside of the upper skin of the double bottom throughout one of the compartments, in addition to the other protection mentioned. The Resistance had been brought down by iron ballast to a trim of 25 feet 9 in. aft and 19 ft. 7 in. forward, giving a mean draught of 22 feet 8 inches.
It was at this critical moment that Mr. Spencer resolved on a surprise. Suddenly casting off the parachute, and seated on a mere sling below the half-inflated balloon, without ballast, without grapnel, and unprovided with a valve, he sailed away over the heads of the multitude.
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