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Updated: May 18, 2025
He invariably referred to a missing suspender-button as a broken "spring-hanger;" to a limp as a "flat-wheel;" he "fired up" when eating; he "took water," the same as the engine; and "oiled round," when he tasted whisky. Gun knew all the slang and shop-talk of the road, and used it was even accused of inventing much of it but his engine talk was unique and inimitable.
And then the colonel would pause and gaze benignly after the limping figure bobbing along in the next block, and if there was a bystander to address, the colonel would say, "For a flat-wheel he does certainly make good time."
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