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We can compare it with the locomotive-engine. As the iron horse performs its work, it gradually wears out its pistons, its rods, its wheels, its boiler-tubes, all of which have to be made good from time to time. The founder and the smith repair it, supply it, so to speak, with 'plastic food, the food that becomes embodied with the whole and forms part of it.
Mabelle is convalescent; Muriel not so well; Baby certainly better. In the afternoon one of the boiler-tubes burst. It was repaired, and we went on steaming. In the evening it burst again, and was once more repaired, without causing a long stoppage. Friday, January 12th. Wednesday morning with us was Tuesday evening with people in England, and we were thus twelve hours in advance of them.
I did not notice this at first till I had grown wearied of stumbling and pushing through the grass, and Mr. Wardle was beginning to sit down very often and hang out his tongue very far. There was nothing but grass everywhere, and it was impossible to see two yards in any direction. The grass-stems held the heat exactly as boiler-tubes do.
In the first place, if Belle View were not burned, I should hardly feel safe in having the crowd there with conditions as they are and things are not especially pleasant in this city. However, how long will it take to get away from here, Captain?" "We must take on some coal, and Hendrickson has drawn the fires and is reaming in some new boiler-tubes.
We can compare it with the locomotive-engine. As the iron horse performs its work, it gradually wears out its pistons, its rods, its wheels, its boiler-tubes, all of which have to be made good from time to time. The founder and the smith repair it, supply it, so to speak, with 'plastic food, the food that becomes embodied with the whole and forms part of it.
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