Finerty of the Sand-House (Classic Reprint)
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Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Finerty of the Sand-House Finerty, as night keeper of the sand-house and coal-chutes in the Memphis "yards," was called foreman, although, as he explained, "I do all th´ worruk mesilf." But there had to be some title for a man who put his official signature in lead-pencil on the tickets that showed how much coal and sand each engineer had taken. As Finerty used to explain, "´Tis f´r th´ hoomps on th´ backs av locomotives. Ye see," he would continue, "there are two hoomps like on a locomotive. Th´ wan is for dry shteam an´ th´ other is for dry sand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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