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Updated: June 16, 2025
The gutters having been made, it is easy, by the use of portable dams, of thin boiler-iron, like broad shovels, which may be set in the course of the flow, to divert the current into any branch channel, or to stop it at any desired part of this channel.
Rough men in rough clothing, slouch-hats, breeches stuffed into boot-tops, some with vests, none with coats, are grouped about the boiler-iron stove, which has ruddy cheeks and is distributing a grateful warmth; the billiard-balls are clacking; there is no other sound that is, within; the wind is fitfully moaning without. The men look bored; also expectant.
The note of the cue-owl is infinitely soft and sweet soft and sweet as the whisper of a flute. But penetrating oh, beyond belief; it can bore through boiler-iron. It is a lingering note, and comes in triplets, on the one unchanging key: hoo-o-o, hoo-o-o, hoo-o-o; then a silence of fifteen seconds, then the triplet again; and so on, all night.
That, thanks to a fortunate warning, the Imperial coach was lined with boiler-iron, is well known. That warning, by direction of her husband, was written by Madame Althie Pontalba, and delivered by me.
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