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The locomotive engineer (1888)

Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916, Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : American Machinist Pub. Co · leaf 571

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night in high altitudes, and the heat andthe sheet lightning around the horizon warnedme that there was to be one of those short, fiercestorms that come but once or twice a year in theselatitudes, and which arc known us cloudbursts. The alkali plains, or debris, as they are oftenerroDiouely called,… … Under tho heading of Death and Doggerel,tbe editor of the hii^iiwtite Kirtmanv Mugatineputs his foot down and declines to publish anymore mongrel poetry dedicated to the poor fellowswho lose their lives on the road, or in any otherway. Those who have laid down their lives archelpless against the…

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