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Bob Marrot was wont to say of her, in after years, that, "if it had bin his mother who had lost an arm instead of Will Garvie, he was convinced that her firmness, amountin' a'most to obstinacy, of purpose, would have enabled her to grow on a noo arm as good as the old 'un, if not better." We need scarcely add that Bob was an irreverent scamp!
Before she could finish the sentence Mrs Tipps was gone. She returned in breathless haste, beckoned Mrs Marrot and Gertie to follow her, and was finally hurried with them into a first-class carriage just as the train began to move.
But never, never, never, as long as I'm able to manidge my own ah!" Mrs Durby terminated here with one of her own appalling shrieks, for it was at this precise moment that John Marrot happened, as already described, to have occasion to knock a cart and horse to atoms.
Often had Mrs Marrot heard her husband talk of tyres and driving-wheels, and many a time had she seen these wheels whirling, half-concealed, in their appropriate places, but never till that day had she seen the iron hoop, eight feet in diameter, elevated in bare simplicity on a turning-lathe, where its size impressed her so much that she declared, "she never could 'ave imagined engine-wheels was so big," and asked, "'ow did they ever manage to get 'em lifted up to w'ere they was?"
The very first thing that struck Bob Marrot was that the tools were so heavy, thick, and strong that the biggest carpenter he had ever seen would not have been able to use them.
All classes and conditions of men, women, and children were hustling each other in a state of great excitement; but the preponderating class was that which is familiarly though not very respectfully styled "the masses." Mrs Marrot was there too much against her will and little Gertie.
"That's so, Willum," assented Mrs Marrot in a meditative tone. Thus meditating, she was conducted into the smiths' department. Here about 140 forges and 400 men were at work. Any one of these forges would have been a respectable "smiddy" in a country village.
"Why, mother," he said, resuming his seat at the bedside, "these are the works where they've got the big hammers so big, mother; oh! you've no notion how big they are, and heavy. Why, one of 'em is full five tons in weight think o' that! equal to five carts of coals, mother, all rolled into one." "Nonsense!" said Mrs Marrot. "But it's true," said Bob, earnestly.
That's all; so I just came home and left Will Garvie to look after our engine. There, run away." Loo smiled, nodded and disappeared, followed by Mrs Marrot, who went, like a sensible woman, to see that her alarmed domestic was all right. While she was away John went to the crib and kissed the rosy cheek of his sleeping boy.
Thus pleasantly he whiled away the time, and ingratiated himself with Gertie, until they arrived at the station where Mrs Tipps and Mrs Marrot had to get out, and where many of the excursionists got out along with them.
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