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As she looked back he pointed first at the shack and then at the creek, bringing his arm around in a semicircle as if it were a sort of dial-hand to the prairie. "Don't get lost," he added. When she nodded to show that she understood, he strode on after the sheep. They had been gaining ground steadily and had got far ahead. Janet, reaching the scene of the nativity, became very much interested.
Just beneath the dial was a small wheel with a crank-handle projecting from one of its spokes, and on this crank-handle the professor now laid his hand. "This," he said, "regulates the valve which admits vapour into the engine; and the dial-hand shows the extent to which the valve is opened. Turn the wheel in the direction of the arrow marked `On' thus, and you admit vapour into the engine.
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