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Updated: May 13, 2025
This was a grand job for George's future. The manager, a Mr. Dodds, not only gave him ten pounds at once as a present, in acknowledgment of his practical skill, but also appointed him engine-man of the new pit, another rise in the social scale as well as in the matter of wages.
I brought the magpie's, though. D' you care to see a magpie egg? Well, you stay to-morrow an' I'll show you that en' some other things I got the engine-man lets me keep there, for there's boys that would steal an egg. An' I could take you where we could fire that pistol. Bet you don't know what that is!" He brought out a small tin box shaped like a thimble, in which were things that rattled. Mr.
Machin, the engine-man, standing at the door of the slip-house, caught their attention and suggested a plan full of joyous possibilities. They gathered round the lad, and, talking in subdued murmurs, unanimously urged him with many persuasions to a certain course of action. He declined the scheme, and declined again. Suddenly a boy shouted: 'Thee dars' na'!
"An' I ain't big enough to get to make money at any other job." "I want to see that engine-man," muttered Lin. "I don't like your smokin' friend." "Pete Goode? Why, he's awful smart. Don't you think he's smart?" "Smart's nothin'," observed Mr. McLean. "Pete has learned me and Sidney a lot," pursued Billy, engagingly.
It will be very fine as soon as the engine-man knows how to manage it." "Yes," said Ruth, interposing, "a little toning down would do it good it is shaking the windows in your office; feel this platform tremble!" "Well, I bargained for a big whistle and I've got it: and I guess they'll know if ever there's a fire in the town!" Just as he said this, Roscoe gave a cry and pointed.
He spent 15 pounds of his hard-earned savings to pay the debts the poor blind old engine-man had necessarily contracted during his absence, and he took a comfortable cottage for his father and mother at Killingworth, where he had worked before his removal to Scotland, and where he now once more obtained employment, still as a brakesman.
There can be no direct communication between protoplasm and a steam-engine; there may be and often is direct communication between machines of even the fifth order and those of the first, as when an engine-man turns a cock, or repairs something with his own hands if he has nothing better to work with.
Stephenson taught himself arithmetic and mensuration while working as an engine-man, during the night shifts; and when he could snatch a few moments in the intervals allowed for meals during the day, he worked his sums with a bit of chalk upon the sides of the colliery wagons. Dalton's industry was the habit of his life.
"Where do yu' sleep?" "Sleeping with the engine-man now. Why can't you put that on me to-night?" "Goin' up-stairs. This gentleman wouldn't let you go up-stairs." But the earnestly petitioned clerk consented, and Billy was the first to hasten into the room.
"It is very natural," he remarks, "for those who are unacquainted with locomotive driving to admire the life of an engine-man, and to imagine how very pleasant it must be to travel on the engine.
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