Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 243
,gaping break on the upturned side. Part oftheir work required that this break be madestill bigger at one point, and torches wereused to do this cutting. After the hole had been enlarged, the diverstook turns in crawling into the main to getout the mud for thirty or forty feet beyond 840 A FLAME… … HOISTING THE DAMAGED WATER-PIPE ABOARD THE FLOATING DERRICK mud shifted and buried them. The rest ofthe task of getting the pipe ready to lift it tothe surface consisted in cutting off the tophalf of the pipe at one joint and severing itall around at the other joint. The pipe wasone and five-eighth…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.