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Updated: June 22, 2025
So saying, Sam Natly assisted Gertie down the long iron ladder, by which his nest was reached, and walked with her to the engine-shed, which they soon reached. They had not waited long before John Marrot's iron horse came panting slowly into its accustomed stable.
While gazing round this apartment, Mrs Marrot's eyes suddenly became transfixed. "Wot's the matter now?" demanded Bob, in some alarm. "I do believe w'y there's a locomotive in the air!" said Mrs Marrot in an undertone. "So it is!" exclaimed Bob. And, reader, so it was. In that shed they had a crane which rested on a framework overhead, and ran on wheels over the entire shop.
As a specimen of this smaller work, Will Garvie drew Mrs Marrot's attention to the fact that two vulcans were engaged in twisting red-hot iron bolts an inch and a half thick into the form of hooks with as much apparent ease as if they had been hair-pins.
When she had been restored, Mr Abel launched off into a glowing oration, in the course of which he referred to John Marrot's long services, to his faithful and unwearied attention to his arduous duties, and to the numerous instances wherein he had shown personal courage and daring, amounting almost to heroism, in saving the lives of comrades in danger, and in preventing accidents on the line by coolness and presence of mind.
He made a stride or two in the direction of the ticket office, but paused, remembering that he knew not her destination, and that therefore he could not demand a ticket for any place in particular. Doors began to slam, and John Marrot's iron horse let off a little impatient steam. Just then the "late passenger" arrived. There is always a late passenger at every train.
Oh don't say Willum is " "Bill Garvie's all right," said the engine-driver, as he brushed past the girl and went up-stairs. Now, although Mrs Marrot's ears were totally deaf to locomotives they were alert enough to the sound of her husband's voice. When, therefore, he entered the kitchen, he found her standing on the floor with an ample shawl thrown round her.
Three tall and strong-boned men had been on the platform for some time awaiting the arrival of the "Flying Dutchman." Swift though John Marrot's iron horse was, a swifter messenger had passed on the line before him. The electric spark and a fast volatile, free-and-easy, yet faithful spark it is had been commissioned to do a little service that day.
There were two other inmates of John Marrot's house not members of the family. One was his fireman, William Garvie, who lodged with him, the other a small servant or maid-of-all-work who led a rugged existence, but appeared to enjoy it, although it kept her thin. Her name was Ann Stocks, familiarly known as Nanny.
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