Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 209
the pressure, it suddenly takes a newstart and goes faster. The roar ceases to be sointense, the train appears above the tops of thesnow-drifts, and, She s through at last! says the foreman.She s through at last! All aboard! And when the line is clear and the long-de-layed trains come slowly… … READY TO A DRIFT. NOTICE THE WHIRLING BLADES. Then the train stops long enough for the mento get aboard, while the firemen, perhaps, shovelsnow into the tenders of their engines, where it ismelted with a steam-blast. Shoveling snow is natural monument at once to the awful power ofthe storm and the…
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