Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 69
d. He speeded up his own water-wheel from ninehundred revolutions a minute to twelve hundred.The lights flamed up intensely bright. Not fast enough! he shouted to Jed. Callup the pulp-mill! Nobody there but the night-watchman!yelled Jed. Call him quick and tell him to start every 598 JACK THE… … NOW! YELLED FRED. YOUR WHOLE WEIGHT—DOWN WITH II fly out, and shut his head-gates as fast as he can.Weve got to do the rest. Then he glanced at his instruments, and, notingthat he had on over three hundred more horse-power of load, sped up the great turbine. The usual high-pitched note of the…
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