Pick, Shovel And Pluck; Further Experiences "with Men Who Do Things"
Pick, Shovel And Pluck; Further Experiences "with Men Who Do Things"
A Russell Alexander Russell Bond
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Suppose something should give way! Suppose the con- necting-rod should break loose! I had heard of such an accident once, and the big steel bar, thrashing around, sliced through the engine cab as if it had been so much card- board. Or suppose a rail should give way! There they were stretching out ahead of us. I had seen how those rails were made; how, softened by heat, they were rolled into shape as if they were made of lead. Now they were gleam- ing, not of their own light, but in the cold gli...nt of the moon, rigid, inflexible, holding this lumbering monster to its course. My, how the engine did tear around the curves! Even on a straight stretch, or "tangent,** as it is properly called, every slightest unevenness of the road-bed was exaggerated tenfold. It was all I could do to hang^i5;;|g^^tf(pvgny
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