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Gas especially is coming forward, and oil is freely used. For reasons before stated, it seems to the writer that, where coal is plentiful, the day is distant when steam will not continue to be the principal source of power. It will be a world surpriser that beats one horse-power developed by one pound of coal.
"You really miss " "I wish I were a poet, so I could tell you adequately. But you haven't said you missed me, Claire. Didn't you, a teeny bit? Wouldn't it have been tolerable to have poor old Jeff along, to drive down dangerous hills " "And fill grease-cups! Nasty and stickum on the fingers!" "Yes, I'd have done that, too. And invented surprises along the way. I'm a fine surpriser!
The surpriser was taken by surprise. "My Cap'n!" Janet rushed to him and flung her arms about him. "Hold there!" he cried, "I'm all over isters, Janet; isters an' eelgrass an' water!" "Never mind, Cap'n Daddy, you are you! I am never going to leave you. I've come home!" In her raptures she had shaken Billy's hat off, and now stooped to pick it up.
It was surrounded by "a dyke of eight feet broad, and a thick mud wall of ten feet high, sufficient to stop a sudden surpriser. It had one long and broad street, lying east and west, and two other cross streets of less breadth and length," containing in all some "five or six and fifty households."
He knows that some day unless he is shot first his Judas will set to work, the trap will be laid, and he will be the surprised instead of a surpriser at a stick-up. That is why the man who holds up trains picks his company with a thousand times the care with which a careful girl chooses a sweetheart.
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