. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and a darned good singlepotato digger it is, too. Ah, re-sponded the editor, I see; and have youa sample of the work it can turn out?The man rose slowly to his feet, and,looking calmly at the editor as one whodoubted much without reason, he said:Yes, I have; Ive a sack of the bestpotatoes in all Sawback county in a bagI left at your door. They are samplesof the work it turns out and you cantake them home and try em. I in-tended to give them to you, anyhow,but I thought you wanted to put thedi
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and a darned good singlepotato digger it is, too. Ah, re-sponded the editor, I see; and have youa sample of the work it can turn out?The man rose slowly to his feet, and,looking calmly at the editor as one whodoubted much without reason, he said:Yes, I have; Ive a sack of the bestpotatoes in all Sawback county in a bagI left at your door. They are samplesof the work it turns out and you cantake them home and try em. I in-tended to give them to you, anyhow,but I thought you wanted to put thedigger in your paper—that railroad fel-low said you did. Ah, yes, repliedthe man of the pen, as light dawned onliim. Im afraid the digger cant goin, but I believe an appreciation of thedigger and some of its work can be gotinto the editors head. I will take somehome and try. And behold the inventorwas of good cheer, for although he hadgiven away something and got nothingin return, he had been listened to, whichwas a great reward. Moral: Never swiftly turn away fromyour door an inventor who has the. the floor and spread out his wareswhile the editor looked on and won-dered. As the thing took shape theeditor tried to perceive anythingremotely resembling the graspingknuckles or clutches, or holdersor lobster claw grabbers or snatch pinsor arrow heads and sockets which then .\.\D FRIENDS. fruit of the earth to give away, and donot advise an unknown man to seek, inhot haste, for publicity, for the wispsof barley in his whiskers are no indica-tion of the contents of his bag and itmay be that he has but concealed a gen-erous heart under a poor and unpre-tentious garb of a humble inventor. 414 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING September, 1906. R!l^$iKeriii$ A Practical Journal of Railway MotivePower and Rolling; Stock. Published Monthly by ANGUS SINCLAIR CO., 136 I^iberty Street, New York,Telephone, 984 Cortlandt. Cable address, I,oceng,* N. Y. Glasgow, * l/ocauto. Business Depa
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