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This happened when the joke was at flood-tide, and the men of the wrecking-crew took a ten-gallon keg of whiskey along wherewith to celebrate the first appearance of the new superintendent in character as a practical wrecking-boss. The outcome was rather astonishing.

Then the wrecking-crew laughed; and the farmer put his head out of a window and said that Evans was no gentleman. But .007 was very sober. He had never seen a wreck before, and it frightened him. The crew still laughed, but they worked at the same time; and 007 forgot horror in amazement at the way they handled the Mogul freight.

Around the man in the soft hat the wrecking-crew was gathering: shopmen for the greater part, as a crew of a master mechanic's choosing would be. As the event proved, there was little time for the doing of the preliminary work which Lidgerwood had meant to do. In the midst of the letter-sorting, McCloskey put his head in at the door of the private office. "We're ready when you are, Mr.

The wrecking-crew were climbing carelessly from the caboose to the tender even jesting with the engineer, for he heard a shuffling of feet among the coal, and the snatch of a song, something like this: "Oh, the Empire State must learn to wait, And the Cannon-ball go hang! "Say! Eustis knew what he was doin' when he designed this rig. She's a hummer. New, too." "Snff! Phew! She is new.