, 1874-12-19
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CAST say. I'm sure. sir. Been used
10 hiiers all my life; but working ems
different To- making EN-. There's some
thing wrong as you say, or they wouldn't
ALWAYS be u-bustin. Tuin't once nor
twice, nor now and then, for its a thing
as Is always ahappening; and though
I've never had more than a SCald OF two
myself I've seen some strange sights:
men all blown to pieces, SO that they
were picked up afterward in baskets;
men taken 20 the hospital with their
flesh hanEing'to them in rags, and there
they'd lie wTithing and tearing at the
wranplngS in such agony ihaJ-tn"rc-
amt above owning Tive cried like a
child to see my poor mates sutlerlngs-
And there they'd bc day after day, till
sort of calm came over them and the
pain went, when they'd quite smile if
YOU spoke to 'cm, they seemed so easy;
and It would be because a gentle hand
Wus laid upon en- and they were going
into the long sleep
Some GETS better but not when they're
~calied badly; for its strange stun, Is
~lrlm Well, no, I'm not afraid and
never DO feel afraid What's the gOod2
ONES got il to do, and there's the mouths
uf nome tJ feed. 50 one cant afford IL;
and then the odds are precious long ones
against il being ones own Dustin. But
u1w So many more steam engines are
coming mo use day by day, II seems as
If something ought 10 be done in the
way of making bilerS stronger Cheap
ness is Chcapness; but then "a things dear
N any price that makes such ruin as I've
some tougher metal than iron;-thOugh
certainly Steam's strong enough 10 tear
Up anything. But there seems to me to
De some fresh plan wanted for making
li,rrs | didn't work there but ! went
and had "a look drcckly after that hOrri-
h.a aDcidrn, M the Big Works last
autumn. Well. there was about an acre
ODD. buildings sheds and Setrer-Swept
tVllaaS if you'd battered EN- ali down;
great hrehrlcks. wcighinga a hundred and
half. pitched here and there like chatt;
sheets of lead sent flying hundred
yards, tall chiun@ys powdered down;
and the big busted biler itself Jumped
T-Al out ol lis place; while as TO the
middle of !, that was torn of and
.r-ml.el uf and blown, ike sheet of
paper, 'o 70 distance. Plenty of lite lost
.-rIy and plenty of escapes; but what |
took mu~' notice Of was the plates torn
u" the h,'-r-turu of, rs | said before,
like SO much paper; while these sheets
nr plates of iron had given way at the
TEcts and looked for all the world like
'"-a-ot postage NIampS-tOrn OFF OF
course along the pertorating.
No", then" says 10 myself, that 5
i-ln- as wants altering. You upeTfOrate
.-g edge, Of your plate, to admit riyetS,
ana so take half their strength Of-p'r'apS
more then You puts, perhaps, hot Tivcts
- ana they p'r'aps cTYstallizes the irOn"
My praps, mind | don't say SO, only
.-. III" edges OF the biler looked crystal
, ana brittle. Well. then, some day
.'-'S a heNtry pressure O. steam, and
Up -',> your biler-bUsted. and spread
'-- ...A ant death, and misery around.
I-,D how are we 10 faSten our bIler
-.t>, says you, If we don't rivet cm:'
''N >.o-.i | know: ! amt a scientific
--'a-l only stokes. That's for you TO
.~' .-t but you amt a-going to tell
IT. aIt yol, that you scientific men and
'-rrmaSers can't ind no other way to
"-Ae '..r7s only by riveting them: Say
tAN Pl4lcS, cages over, anu
-.,'> one into the other. like tin saIspan
---Ne7~ does their tin. They'd stand
.ag '.Ealn hat way, and you wouldn't
..-A.a Your plates. | amt biler-
...arE ...arE Or ! should Try that dodge,
ms, oI, there, that's only one way out
~ man: As could be found by expert
SEEMS SEEMS TO ne, sir. as if we English peo-
p mes anything new, and always wants
HHg5s 10 what our fathers and grand
-.;-s's 9lc 5efo.e Is. They went along
made their footmarks, and we 60
rs after en-, putting our foots N Just
-ne spots, thinking it must be right,
come What viii OF il.
$40 -1- 10 90 with engines many years.
..,.-- go locomotives and stayionaries, agri-
- '.s and manufactures. and print
o--Css, and been doWn in the engine
T,e-. 9 steamers, and hat lasts abou,
-. 2c- Tcrst q 81. Filing
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