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"These things happen all the time, Miss Warfield. You can't figure it out." "One ought to be able to determine it," replied the girl. The track boss shook his head. "We can't tell what made that rail give." "Of course, we can tell," said Marion. "It gave because it was weakened." "But what weakened it?" replied the man. "You can't tell that? The rail's sound."
George got the man to promise to take him, and then he went back until he met Edgar, to whom he related what he had heard. "I'm not astonished," remarked the lad, indicating one of the sleepers. "Look at that the rail's only held down by a spike or two; we fasten them in solid chairs. They're rough and ready in this country."
Then he went back as much farther and placed two torpedoes, one a rail's length behind the other. These railroad torpedoes are small, round tin boxes, about the size of a silver dollar, filled with percussion powder. To each is attached two little straps of lead, which are bent under the upper part of the rail to hold the torpedo in position.
Not once, nor twice, but several times, a whole watch has been washed away from the fore-braces by some gigantic wave, and every single man in it been drowned. Squalls need smart handling. Black squalls are nothing, even when the ship lays over till the lee rail's under a sluicing rush of broken water.
Under the title of flame-brown, cinnamon, or red-hackle and rail's wing, a similar fly kills well in Ireland, and in Scotland also; and is sometimes the best sea-trout fly which can be laid on the water. Let this suffice for the caperer.
The streets of the proud city of Charleston, where ten years before on that fatal November morning the Palmetto flag had been raised as the signal of Secession, were paraded by mobs of dusky freedmen singing: "De bottom rail's on top now, and we's g'wine to keep it dar!"
Down went Ferris down and backward. His body plunged noisily into the water. Chum had wheeled to face the rail's brandisher. But at sight of his master's sudden immersion in the lake, he quitted the fray. At top speed the dog cleared the bank and jumped down into the water in pursuit of Ferris.
The famous Loch-Awe fly, described as an alder-fly with a rail's wing, seems to be nothing but this fat little worthy: but the best plan is to make the wings, either buzz or hackle, of the bright neck-feather of the cock pheasant, thus gaining the metallic lustre of the beetle tribe. Tied thus, either in Devonshire or Snowdon, few flies surpass him when he is out.
There was no rest for it until it was cold and black and then it needed only to be cut and straightened to be ready for a railroad. It was at the end of this rail's progress that Jurgis got his chance. They had to be moved by men with crowbars, and the boss here could use another man. So he took off his coat and set to work on the spot.
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