. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rst said prejudice,and thought the men were very stupidand very pig-headed and had clubbed to- niight order things the men who usedthem daily could make or mar his repu-tation as a buyer. He thereafter becamea useful and considerate oflicial, and intime he came to respect the judgment ofBilly Boyd, on anything which Billy hadto work with day in and day out and tokeep in repair to make his living with,because, as Billy once explained to him,he wanted a thing to be handy and goodand safe becaus
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rst said prejudice,and thought the men were very stupidand very pig-headed and had clubbed to- niight order things the men who usedthem daily could make or mar his repu-tation as a buyer. He thereafter becamea useful and considerate oflicial, and intime he came to respect the judgment ofBilly Boyd, on anything which Billy hadto work with day in and day out and tokeep in repair to make his living with,because, as Billy once explained to him,he wanted a thing to be handy and goodand safe because he wasnt railroadingmuch for his health. Moral: Two or three drops squeezedout of the opinion of some honest, capa-ble men who have gone up against itgood and hard, in all weathers, outside,and who dont know what a railroadlooks like over the top of a mahogany deskin a steam-heated office, should now andthen be poured on a requisition form, andif the ink does not fade out, its likelyall right. Only Trying;. A traveler mustered up courage to askwhen his train was fifteen, said the BELGL-^N ENGINE. WIDE FIRE BOX. FROToTYFE OF MODERN CLASS. A POPULAR gether to down the jack. The oldman tried to cheer Lenden up a bit bysaying that the men had not beenclubbing together because the jacks hadnot given satisfaction in the servicewhich they would have to be put toby the practical men who had to usethem, and live with them, and make themwork, and take chances with them—men like Billy Boyd and the car fore-man. The old man said, however, thatHarding Steel that morning had askedhim through the to let the shophave those jacks as they were no goodoutside arid he would put on an ordinarytop and make the valves work a littlebetter, and they would be all right, andthe old man said he had given his per-mission as the G. M. might be alongsome day and ask questions if he saw arow of new jacks on the side track. Lenden Ear began to see that theold man and the men were
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