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Williamson, having been left to sleep there alone through the night, had secured the entrance to the conning tower. A few sound thumps on the deck, however, roused that machinist, who, donning slippers and trousers, quickly ran up the spiral stairway, admitting them. "I'm mighty thankful to see you back, Captain," was the machinist's greeting.
Off it shot, at the rate of one hundred miles a second, but the travellers were as comfortable as in a Pullman car. They had plenty to eat and drink, they manufactured their own air and water, and they slept when they so desired. But Axtell, the crazy machinist, had hidden himself aboard, and, in mid-air, he tried to wreck the projectile.
The raw hand, or "greener" as he is called, will often work through his apprenticeship for nominal wages; but he has the prospect of becoming a machinist, and earning from 6s. to 10s. a day, or of becoming in his turn a sweater. The general hand has no such hope. The lowest kind of coat-making, however, is refused by the Jew contractor, and falls to Gentile women.
He was a little runt of a Socialist machinist, with bad teeth and gnarled hands, and he could do nothing sublime or inspiring, nothing even dignified; in fact, it would be hard for anyone to do anything dignified, when he lies on the floor with a gallon or two of water in him, and one man sitting on his legs and another on his stomach, and another jamming a funnel into his mouth.
The crowd, having now been attracted in various directions, became more penetrable; and, in regaining the platform on the Place de la Concorde, I had a full view of the turrets, battlements, &c. erected behind the three temples, in which the skilful machinist had so combined his plan, by introducing into it a sight of the famous horses brought from Marly, and now occupying the entrance of the Champs Elysees, that these beautiful marble representations of that noble animal seemed placed here on purpose to embellish his scenery.
I was then on the farm to which I had returned, more because I wanted to experiment than because I wanted to farm, and, now being an all-around machinist, I had a first-class workshop to replace the toy shop of earlier days. My father offered me forty acres of timber land, provided I gave up being a machinist. I agreed in a provisional way, for cutting the timber gave me a chance to get married.
He scanned it closely, and, as Mark was getting on his hat and coat, for the night was chilly, his chum went on: "Mark, if I didn't know, that we had left Axtell, the crazy machinist, up on Mars, I'd say that this was his writing. But, of course, it's impossible." "Of course impossible," agreed Mark. "But, there's one thing, though," continued Jack. "What's that?" asked Mark.
"And I've made it my business, regular," added Williamson; the machinist, "to see that he doesn't have his wish." "He's always sulky, and kicking about everything," added Eph. "I may be wrong, but can't get it out of my head that the fellow came aboard on purpose to be a trouble-maker." "Why, what object could he have in that?" asked Captain Jack. "Blessed if I know," replied Eph.
Thus, though a sharpshooter pleases to operate a trip hammer for the forging of great guns and an expert machinist desires to march with the flag, the nation is being served only when the sharpshooter marches and the machinist remains at his levers. "The whole nation must be a team, in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted.
I said writing was my TRADE, my bread-and-butter; I said it was not fair to ask a man to give away samples of his trade; would he ask the blacksmith for a horseshoe? would he ask the doctor for a corpse? Now I come to an important matter as I regard it. My machinist type-copied a book for me in '74, so I concluded it was that one.
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