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Now, the engine-crew will set the airbrakes on the mogul and leave her with steam up to throb all night; they'll not blow her down, for that would mean work firing her in the morning. Our task, Buck, will be to throw off the airbrakes and let her glide silently out of our log-landing.
The fireman would prefer that to firing that big mogul all the way back to Sequoia." "Yes," Buck agreed, "I think he would." "There is a slight grade at our log-landing. I know that, because the air leaked out of the brakes on a log-train I was on a short time ago, and the train ran away with me.
Presently the woods-boss, accompanied by thirty of his best men, came down to the log-landing. At Bryce's order they clambered aboard the engine and tender, hanging on the steps, on the roof of the cab, on the cowcatcher anywhere they could find a toe-hold.
As a result, during the five or six minutes required to "spot in" the caboose, and an extra minute or two lost while the brakeman struggled with the recalcitrant lock on the switch, the air had leaked away through the worn valves and rubber tubing, and the brakes had been released so that the train, without warning, had quietly and almost noiselessly slid out of the log-landing and started on its mad career.
There were a few long-legged Prince Edward Islanders, but most of them were wiry little French Canadians, who did not seem to understand much of the orator's tumultuous speech. "If you've got a crew that's any good on a log-landing, we'll find it out," added the Duke. "Get at 'em!" "Good gaddlemighty!" gasped Presson, "you ain't going to do anything like that!" "You watch."
He was too wrought up now to sit calmly down in the peace and quietude of the giants, and digest the annual reports Sinclair had given him. He hastened back to the mill-office and sought Sinclair. "At what hour does the logging-train leave the Laguna Grande Lumber Company's yard for our log-landing in Township Nine?" he demanded. "Eight a.m. and one p.m. daily, Bryce."
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