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Updated: June 23, 2025
The experiments were made at Providence, R.I. The water was taken from a hydrant to the head of which were attached couplings holding two pressure gauges, and from the couplings the hose extended to a tank holding 2,100 gallons, so arranged as to measure accurately the time and amount of delivery of water by the hose. Different lengths of hose were used.
How can this urgent lust, worse than any insanity anywhere, which perpetually flees wisdom and modesty, and is enkindled more powerfully the more it is quenched, control itself among human beings, whom it befouls with couplings unheard of among beasts, actions to which Christians may not give name.
A faltering cheer broke out, gathered volume, and, as the couplings tautened with a jerk, came an answering roar from the closely packed carriages. Standish bent down. "Good-bye, Bet " and for a moment lips and fingers met and clung. The train was moving slowly. "God bless you!" she said with a queer little gasp, and stepped back into one of the circles of subdued light.
Still further on, our route led us along the Manassas Gap railroad. Here were more sad pictures of the havoc of war. The track was torn up, the ties burnt. Every now and then, numbers of car wheels and axles, iron bands and braces, couplings and reaches, showed where whole trains had been burned. Here and there, the incombustible materials among the debris showed the lading of particular cars.
He told them many things that they had not known before as, for instance, that the things that hook carriages together are called couplings, and that the pipes like great serpents that hang over the couplings are meant to stop the train with. "If you could get a holt of one o' them when the train is going and pull 'em apart," said he, "she'd stop dead off with a jerk." "Who's she?" said Phyllis.
He had passed the fifth, and was stooping beneath the couplings of two flats beyond, when from the other side he heard footsteps. One hand on the butt of his revolver, he leaped forth. Uttering a choking cry he sprang back. Within a foot of his eyes were the barrels of two big Colt's-pistols, and looking over the tops of them was a villainous handkerchief-masked face.
Then I hurled myself on the trucks, clutched at something, missed, clutched again, missed again, grasped some sort of hand-hold, was swung off my feet my toes bumping on the line, and with a struggle seated myself on the couplings of the fifth truck from the front of the train. It was a goods train, and the trucks were full of sacks, soft sacks covered with coal dust.
Glancing over his shoulder as he shut off steam, Dick saw the fireman gazing back, and a wide gap between the concrete blocks and his load of coal. The couplings had snapped as they strained round the bend and the truck would run down the incline until it smashed through the sheds that held the grinding and mixing plant at the bottom.
She yielded until his lips were on hers, and then she flung out her arms with a little cry and they clung together, closely, silently. The horses galloped on and the sleigh lurched faster and faster. The night train steamed swiftly through the darkness, the cars swaying from side to side of the track, and the couplings clanging and jolting.
When she reversed, the couplings held the car and the block slipped off." "Are you sure you didn't give her too much steam?" "No, sir. I've been doing this job quite a while, and know just how smart a push she wants. It was the guard-rail slipping that made the trouble." "I can't understand why it did slip. The fastening clamps were firm when I looked at them."
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