. Pick, shovel and pluck; further experiences "With men who do things". THE AFTER DECK OF THE AFTER PORTION OF THE MAINE FLOATED OUT OF THE COFFER-DAM ANDREADY TO BE BURIED AT SEA WITH HONORS. Baring the Mystery of the ^Maine. 8i with barnacles and oyster shells. They had to cut up thewreckage with the oxy-acetylene torch; but I suppose youdont know what that is. Indeed we do!* I assured him. We saw one at workthis summer. Its a flame of oxygen and acetylene that isso hot that it cuts right through iron. Then I suppose you know that that intensely hot flame,although it cuts iron, does
. Pick, shovel and pluck; further experiences "With men who do things". THE AFTER DECK OF THE AFTER PORTION OF THE MAINE FLOATED OUT OF THE COFFER-DAM ANDREADY TO BE BURIED AT SEA WITH HONORS. Baring the Mystery of the ^Maine. 8i with barnacles and oyster shells. They had to cut up thewreckage with the oxy-acetylene torch; but I suppose youdont know what that is. Indeed we do!* I assured him. We saw one at workthis summer. Its a flame of oxygen and acetylene that isso hot that it cuts right through iron. Then I suppose you know that that intensely hot flame,although it cuts iron, does not readily cut through wood? Doesnt it? Why, how is that? It seems the torch is not quite hot enough to melt theiron, but it raises it to a white heat. Then a fine stream ofpure oxygen is played on the metal, and it burns instead ofmelting. You know rust is oxidized iron, and the torch willnot burn through rusty metal very well, because the coat ofrust has already consumed all the oxygen it can take rust had to be scraped away before the torch could beused, and yet that jet of flame that
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