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Next, with the turbine running, and the synchronizing spring in mid-position, adjust the governor-rods so that the turbine will run at the normal speed of 900 revolutions per minute when working on the fifth valve, and carrying full load. The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.

Generally I "trammed" it from Bow Church, because I was so eager to get to my journey's end, but usually I returned on foot, for though the distance was great I thought I slept better for the walk. What joyful evenings those were! Perhaps I was not altogether satisfied about the Olivers, but that did not matter very much.

What I do spleen again, is havin' a grandson of mine livin' in a community where a man that'll act like that is actually let in their houses by honest folks. Think of a son of Daniel J. Bines treatin' folks like that as if they was his equals. Say, Dan'l had a line of faults, all right but, by God! he'd a trammed ore fur two twenty-five a day any time in his life rather'n not pay a dollar he owed.

"Angus again snorted in a common way. 'St. John Hammersmith! says he, steaming up, 'When he trammed ore for three-fifty a day and went to bed with his clothes on any night he'd the price of a quart of gin-and-beer mixed liking to get his quick his name was naked 'John' with never a Saint to it, which his widow tacked on a dozen years later. And speaking of names, Mrs.