. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sed appetite satisfied thecat. Other cats came and went, butBillys cat became an institution. Itheld its place like the stationary cii-Kine or the wheel press. Regularly every day at three minutesto twelve it came along the middle ofthe floor and looked at the clock andeverybody knew that the whistle wouldsoon blow and young and old gotready for the wild stampede forClarks parlors. How the cat knewthe appointed time was as much of amystery as are the revolutions of themoons of Jupiter. Billy
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sed appetite satisfied thecat. Other cats came and went, butBillys cat became an institution. Itheld its place like the stationary cii-Kine or the wheel press. Regularly every day at three minutesto twelve it came along the middle ofthe floor and looked at the clock andeverybody knew that the whistle wouldsoon blow and young and old gotready for the wild stampede forClarks parlors. How the cat knewthe appointed time was as much of amystery as are the revolutions of themoons of Jupiter. Billy ascribed it tooccult science. The cat was peculiarlydull in many ways. He had none oftlie hunting instincts of animals of thecat kind. Rats could run past his nosebut he had no taste for them. Whatuse was it as long as Billy furnishedcooked meat? As for mice, the truthfully be said to be goodfor mice in the sense that he nevershowed other than a kindly indiffer-ence to them. They could go theirway and the cat went his. One day we sat in the pit waitingtor wheels. We were not as impatient. XCINE IN POSITION FOR TEST AT THE ALTOONA PLANT. Buhoup vestibules with sectional andplan illustrations. Steel passenger carsfrom the shops of four prominentmakers sliow the style of the art as itis at present. The catalogue is wellworthy of perusal and may be had byapplying direct to the McConway& Torley Company. Pittsburgh, Pa. as the mother of Sisera who sat at thewindow and called: Why tarry thewheels of his chariot? It was one ofthose lulls that occur in the busiestmachine shops, and is generally fol-lowed by a storm of haste to make upfor lost time. Billys cat lay in a cov-ered recess at the end of the pit. He 276 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING June, 1907. was in a profound slumber. Billvlooked at the cat and the cat claimed that it was the co-rela-tionship existing between himself andhis cat that set the waves of thoughtradiating like ethereal disturbances•ca
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