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Updated: May 27, 2025
He worked nine hours a day steadily. "Very well," said the doctor, "you'll break down because you are over-engined for your beam." McGoggin was a little chap. One day, the collapse came as dramatically as if it had been meant to embellish a Tract. It was just before the Rains.
A facetious opponent once said that he had a seven and a half hat and a six and a half belt, being, as steamboat folk would put it, over-engined for his beam. Both the President and the General Attorney were devoted to their company, and neither would have scrupled to loot an orphanage or burn a church had such drastic measure been demanded by Anaconda interests.
Hilliard's voice broke in on his thoughts, and he realized his friend had been speaking for some time. "She's over-engined, if anything," he was saying, "but that's all to the good for emergencies. I got fifteen knots out of her once, but she averages about twelve. And good in a sea-way, too. For her size, as dry a boat as ever I was in." "What size is she?" asked Merriman.
His father was "weel kent" in the town of Dumbarton, being a chief engineer, employed by a great firm of shipbuilders to extend new machinery on trial trips. Needless to say, he made a great fight. But though his heart was big enough, his body was too frail. As they say on the sea, he was over-engined for his beam.
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