Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 36
gine. Long pastare the days whenbolts were driven bybrawny arms and theslow swing of a sledge.Now the workmanleaning his stomach against an iron club, touches a spring, and,presto! the hard-kicking, pent-up air insidedrives the darting club-head back and forth,back and forth, quick as a snake… … HIDING UP ON AN EIGHTEEN-TON COLUMN. We must get nearer to those fellows, saidthe artist; and presently, after some mild haz-ards, we were safely over on the span, quite asnear as was desirable to a gang of riveters 594 CAREERS OF DANGER AND DARING. [May, dangling twenty feet above us on a swing.…
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