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The guns, after preliminary bombardment, will create a continuous Niagara of exploding shells upon a given line, marked in everybody's map, and timed for an exact period, just beyond the objective; and the infantry will stroll up into position a comfortable distance behind, reading the time-table, and dig themselves in.
"Bother and confound them all!" he said. "Why don't they keep to the time-table? There's no system in this place. That is what ruins farming want of system." He went on grumbling as he walked. I followed him. Halfway across the field we met the owner of the voice.
I'm quite ready to make myself useful in any way you may require." "Get me a time-table, then, and let's see about the trains. I don't want to stay in Southampton all day." Joseph Wilmot rang, and ordered the time-table; Henry Dunbar studied it. "There is no express before ten o'clock at night," he said; "and I don't care about travelling by a slow train.
Where the time-table is so arranged as to call for speed nearly equal to the full capacity of the engine, it is very obvious that the risks of failure in "making time" must be much greater than at reduced rates; and when they do occur, the efforts made to gain the time must be correspondingly greater and uncertain. A single example will be sufficient to show this.
The girl turned at that moment and, encountering the forehead and eyes, gazed at them until they sank slowly behind the protection of the blind. "She's coming here," said Mr. Tredgold, watching through the wire. "Wants to see our time-table, I expect." He sat down at the table again, and taking up his pen took some papers from a pigeon-hole and eyed them with severe thoughtfulness.
From the admirable report of Mr. McCallum, above referred to, we take the following: Collisions between fast and slow trains moving in the same direction are prevented by the following rule: 'The conductor of a slow train will report himself to the Superintendent of Division immediately on arrival at a station where, by the time-table, he should be overtaken by a faster train; and he shall not leave that station until the fast train passes, without special orders from the Superintendent of Division. A slow train, under such circumstances, may, at the discretion of the Division Superintendent, be directed to proceed; he, being fully apprised of the position of the delayed train, can readily form an opinion as to the propriety of doing so; and thus, while the delayed train is permitted to run without regard to the slow one, the latter can be kept entirely out of its way.
He began to think of doing some farming, of purchasing a cow and a horse. He was given all necessary stores a green flag, a red flag, lanterns, a horn, hammer, screw-wrench for the nuts, a crow-bar, spade, broom, bolts, and nails; they gave him two books of regulations and a time-table of the train. At first Semyon could not sleep at night, and learnt the whole time-table by heart.
The sky would have told us we were in Italy if we had come on a magic carpet without a compass or a time-table. Poppa says we are not, under any circumstances, to mention it more than once, but that we might as well explode the fallacy that there is anything like it in America. There isn't.
The dead body which they had seen pass was at peace somewhere in the little flowery cemetery. "Number 18." It was a bare hotel room, with a stove in the Italian fashion, a set of brushes displayed on the table, and a time-table. Not a book, not a journal. He was there; she saw suffering on his bony face, a look of fever. This produced on her a sad impression.
"I should think the least we could do would be to let him know," she ventured. "Does anybody know what time the train passes Gaston?" "At seven-fifteen to-morrow evening," was the unguarded reply; and Penelope drew her own conclusions from the ready answer and the folded time-table in Elinor's lap. "Well, why don't you send him a wire? I'm sure I should." "Why should I?" said Elinor, warily.
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