Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 76
ock up to theworkhouse. Mr. Abbe took the boys intothe workhouse and showedthem a wire hanging from thetop of the building. Attachedto the lower end of the wirewas a heavy weight submergedin a tank of water, and therewas an electric coil in the tankto keep the water from freezing in cold weather.… … OIENATING THE JACKS AT THE K PIEKS. try to raise twenty thousand tons. And I assureyou you would realize how heavy the building isif you had seen the condition of the clay under it.All the water had been squeezed out of the whiteclay, and it was so hard that we actually had touse a pick on it. 622…
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