41 Lure O Gold 1904

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up to one of these open hell-holes all day and
see how you like it."
"They d think it was a picnic."
S pose you could run a month with empty bunkers."
"Worth ten dollars an hour."
ll fire again on this "
ship oh, yes !
"Why
don t
you send down some more glass to
burn?"
And all this accompanied by the hardest swearing
I ever heard.
Mr. Nason, who was anxious to get out of range of
this snarling pack, dodged quickly out of the fire-room
and into the engine-room, passing to the shaft-alley
door. I followed him closely, being uncomfortably
joggled by the odious Fishley, who, closely pressed by
Somers and Trust, seemed feverish in his haste to get
into the tunnel. We entered the long, low, narrow
alley, hurrying by a couple of oilers who were growling
like the firemen, and at once proceeded to take up the
first
of the planks, to the right of the long, swiftly re
volving shaft of steel that ran back to the stern of the
ship.
It was a tight place for a gang of thirty men to
work in.
Many of them removed their waistcoats,
and some took off their shirts. We were down in the
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