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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 139

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il-train, its front engine pant- rear half. They must go faster, faster as the 687 688 CAREERS OF DANGER AND DARING. [June, runaway cars gain on them. Any one can seethat it is undesirable to have two million gal-lons of oil struck by a million gallons comingat forty miles an hour. Yet the brakeman… … SNYDER, WHITE AS A GHOST, RACED AHEAD OF THE FIRE. did not realize how rapidly the runaway wascoming. Most likely he had lost his head com-pletely, as better men have done in less seriouscrises. At all events, the front section pres-ently drew up with its grinding brakes on theledge of track that…

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