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Olsen led to within fifty yards of them, and was halted by some observant member of the gang who sat with the others on top of a flat-car. This man's yell stilled the coarse talk and laughter of the gang. "What's that?" shouted a cold, clear voice with authority in it. Kurt thought he recognized the voice, and it caused a bursting, savage sensation in his blood.
The customary huge iron horse was not in sight. In its place stood what resembled a small flat-car. On the car I observed an affair which resembled something an enthusiastic automobilist might have conceived in a lobster salad nightmare. It was, I presume, merely an abnormally large automobile engine; and along each side of it ran a big cylindrical tank. "There, Griggs!" said Hawkins.
Dan was speaking; he was talking of the starving miners in "Colorady," and pointed to the office building, crying, "We'll show them bloated 'ristocrats how nice it feels to starve!" while a din of voices cried, "Hear! hear!" Pushing their way to the flat-car, his muscular escorts hauled Job up and shouted: "The parson, lads Mr. Job. He's goin' to talk wid yez!"
Sure of the safe trend of his affairs, he was in a mood to scoff at any religious allusion. Reverence, with him, was entirely a matter of urgent physical need. He had called to his Maker but twice in his life: once, when an ugly-tempered peon threatened him with a spade; again, when, falling from his swiftly moving flat-car, he felt the heavy wheels grinding him, flesh and bone.
Three cars were in service during the entire time of operating this 1880 railroad: one a flat-car for freight; one an open car with two benches placed back to back; and the third a box-car, familiarly known as the "Pullman." "Each car axle had a large iron disk mounted on and revolving with it between the poles of a powerful horseshoe electromagnet.
A flat-car, by the way, is known amongst the fraternity as a "gondola," with the second syllable emphasized and pronounced long. But to return. I arrived in the afternoon and headed straight from the freight train to the falls. Once my eyes were filled with that wonder-vision of down-rushing water, I was lost. Even a "set-down" could not have lured me away.
If one happened to be in the centre of a boil when it broke, it would send them sailing down the stream many times faster than the regular current was travelling, rowing the boat having about as little effect on determining its course as if it was loaded on a flat-car.
And of course, once they get in, we have to round them up on Sunday afternoon and get them back on the job. Hence the mad- train." "Do they fight, Mr. Cardigan?" "Frequently. I might say usually. It's quite an inspiring sight to see a couple of lumberjacks going to it on a flat-car travelling thirty miles an hour." "But aren't they liable to fall off and get killed?" "No.
We might as well have been marooned on St. Helena. It was awful. When a hand-car came sweeping into town the third day with a big sail on, we hailed it like starving sailors. It was Number Eleven which took on a flat-car loaded with Paynesville's fire department twenty years ago and saved our business section.
"Here's a bunch of farmers with guns!" yelled the man from the flat-car. Olsen halted his force near one of the detached lines of box-cars, which he probably meant to take advantage of in case of a fight. "Hey, you I.W.W.'s!" he shouted, with all his might. There was a moment's silence. "There's no I.W.W.'s here," replied the authoritative voice.
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