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Updated: June 24, 2025

He had never felt quite so limp in his life before. "Curious, ain't it?" said Poney, puffing, on the next track. "You an' me, if we got that man under our bumpers, we'd work him into red waste an' not know what we'd done; but-up there with the steam hummin' in his boiler that awful quiet way..." "I know," said.007. "Makes me feel as if I'd dropped my Fire an' was getting cold.

Rudyard Kipling - The Day's Work - Volume 1