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"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.
In departed days, when the writer was wont to stand upon the foot-plates, through the kindness of engine-driving friends now far away, there was a difficulty in looking out ahead: the current of air was so tremendous, and particles of dust were driven so viciously into one's eyes. But advancing civilization has removed that disadvantage.
"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.
"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.
He got on board the rubber and ivory he had collected, and had it struck down below the dividends of the State have to be remembered first, even at moments of trouble like these and then he gave orders, and the vessel set off again up stream. On the lower deck he stayed himself during the journey back, and gave instructions to Commander Balliot in the art of engine-driving.
The engineer said there used to be alligators along by the road, in the swampy places, but he guessed the engine had frightened most of them away. The trip didn't take forty minutes, so we had scarcely time to learn the whole art of engine-driving, but we were very glad to have had the ride.
All right, Dan, says I; but come along now while theres time. Its your fault, says he, for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didnt know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionarys-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.
"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.
At every rate of speed he knows just how his engine ought to sound, shake, and smell. Let us see how life passes on a locomotive, and what is the secret of success in the business of an engineer. The art of arts in engine-driving is the management of the fire. Every reader is aware that taking care of a fire is something in which few persons become expert.
At the slamming of the door the third man had darted forward out of the shadows to fling himself upon the wooden barrier, beating upon it with his fists and cursing like a madman. Judson saw, understood, and acted, all with the instinctive instantaneousness born of his trade of engine-driving.
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