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The trustees of the church had been building a gasometer back of the church, and the night I speak of the building was for the first time to be lighted in the modern way. The church was, of course, crowded not so much to hear the preacher as to see how the gas would burn.
"I say, old man, suthin' busted there," remarked the sailor, taking the pipe from his mouth and quietly ramming its contents down with the end of his blunt forefinger. The Malay looked grave. "The gasometer?" suggested the sailor. "No, that never busts." "A noo mountain come into action, p'raps, an' blow'd its top off?" "Shouldn't wonder if that's it close at hand too. We's used to that here.
On one side of this gasometer begins a region of disappointed fields, which, however, has hardly begun before a railway embankment cuts across, at an angle convenient for its entirely obscuring the few meadows and trees that in this desolate land do duty for a countryside.
Doctor Ox came in at last, and began to excuse himself for having kept them waiting; but he had to approve a plan for the gasometer, rectify some of the machinery But everything was going on well! The pipes intended for the oxygen were already laid. In a few months the town would be splendidly lighted.
Aeronauts content themselves with the gas which we burn in our streets and houses, and thus it suffices, in inflating the balloon, to obtain from the nearest gas-works the quantity of gas necessary, and to lead it, by means of a pipe or tube, from the gasometer to the mouth or neck of the machine.
I won't pretend that they dwelt there, but look on it they once did the eyes of that great, sad, scandalous, religious French poet on a night of weary rain that set someone quoting, also in that street, "Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville." Yes, and that French poet passed the gasometer on his way to New Zion. Actually. Romance!
While the gas was being taken by the Mexican the gasometer was noticed to rise higher and higher as the patient breathed faster, and not to sink as was usual when the gas had been previously administered.
They spun wildly on their heels, jodeling after the accepted manner of a "gloat," which is not unremotely allied to the primitive man's song of triumph, and dropped down the hill by the path from the gasometer just in time to meet their house-master, who had spent the afternoon watching their abandoned hut in the "wuzzy." Unluckily, all Mr.
Doctor Ox was here, there, and everywhere; neither he nor Ygène, his assistant, lost a moment, but they urged on the workmen, completed the delicate mechanism of the gasometer, fed day and night the immense piles which decomposed the water under the influence of a powerful electric current.
"I say, old man, suthin' busted there," remarked the sailor, taking the pipe from his mouth and quietly ramming its contents down with the end of his blunt forefinger. The Malay looked grave. "The gasometer?" suggested the sailor. "No, that never busts." "A noo mountain come into action, p'raps, an blow'd its top off?" "Shouldn't wonder if that's it close at hand too. We's used to that here.
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