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In attempting to enlarge this, the drill broke, the fragment remaining in the cavity, and defying every effort used for its removal. The well was then tubed, and a hand pump inserted, when it was found to yield at the rate of ten or fifteen barrels per day.
"Catch hold, uncle," cried Rodd, and he held out the telescope with one hand, and the captain's big mahogany tubed spy-glass, decorated with coloured flags, with the other. "No, focus it and use it yourself, boy. I'll have a look afterwards." Rodd raised the glass at once to his eye, but by this time the skipper had caught the object, and began to growl remarks. "Capsized long-boat," he muttered.
"I guess I can look out for myself," said Lander, and he shook the reins and gave the horse a smart cut, as a hint of what he might expect. The landlord joined the clerk in looking after the brisk start the horse made. "Not the way he set off with the old lady, yesterday," suggested the clerk. The landlord rolled his cigar round in his tubed lips. "I guess he's used to ridin' after a good hoss."
"Something of that sort," said Richard, with a slight smile. The saddler said nothing more, but rummaged among the riff-raff on an upper shelf. He got down with the tapering, translucent, wicked-looking thing in his hand. "I reckon that's what you're after, squire." "Reckon it is, Welks," said Richard, drawing it through his tubed left hand.
There was a sharp tinkling as the weakened leg links broke. He threw himself in a queer, awkward movement forward, directly in the path of the tubed weapon. A blinding beam flashed out of the orifice, sheared through Peabody's middle as though he were cut cleanly in half with a gigantic knife. He toppled in two sections to the floor of the conveyor released from all humiliation, all suffering.
"Friends are here," he whispered, through his tubed hand, to a policeman who had been watching the advancing trio from his sentry post; "let us enter." The policeman retreated, and in a moment reappeared with the Inspector and Captain Stephens at his side. "Who are you?" asked the Inspector in a low voice. "Friends." Then Annette said, in a distinct voice: "Monsieur Stephens may remember me?"
The question was now to be tested whether the petroleum would present itself in sufficient quantities to justify further proceedings, or whether it was, like many another dream, to vanish in darkness, or dissolve in tears. The well was tubed, and by a common hand pump yielded ten barrels per day.
"They've gone to pick blueberries," called the lady through her tubed hand to the people on the beach, and the younger among them scrambled up the rocks for cups and bowls to follow them. Mrs. Pasmer had an impulse to call her daughter back, and to make some excuse to keep her from going.
In the midst of the universal stillness, when no sound was heard save the sighing of the night-wind or the solemn creaking of an unsuccessful smoke-curer, there came a voice of alarm down the tube "John, do you hear burglars?" "Oh, dear! no, mum, I don't." "I'm convinced I hear them at the back of the house!" tubed Mrs McTougall. "Indeed it ain't, mum," tubed John in reply.
In Stephenson's boiler, in order that the part of the tubes next the chimney may be of any avail for the generation of steam, the draught has to be very intense, which in its turn involves a considerable expenditure of power; and it is questionable whether the increased expenditure of power upon the blast, in Stephenson's long tubed locomotives, is compensated by the increased generation of steam consequent upon the extension of the heating surface.
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