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'■ Great God! Down brakes ! Quick f Reverse! "
And Bill was out on the iron horse,
Treading his thrills o'er the roaring hrc?
With his nerves strung tense ad electric wires.

Alas I the engine 5 speed is too great;
The baby dream?. 111 tlie path of fate!
Yet Bill knows the force and just the brace
To lift a pound in such a ease :
With a rushing train and the child asleep,
'Tis a giant’s power his place must keep,

Still reaching forth with an iron grasp,
He docs with his might this God-like task ;
Rears the startled child on high—-
So happy to hear its frightened cry—
Then crushing it to his manly breast,
O -r '
Kisses its cheeks with a lover’s zest.

"More brakes'1’ calls Util, for the mother’s seen,
And the crutches and form of Jemraie between
His wife and the train that's crushed the life
From his cluid he thinks— L‘ I'll die with my wife!”
Bui the train now slackens and stops apace.—
Hard by a pallid upturned face.

"Saved!" cries Bill, from the engine's front;
"Saved!" echoes Jeunnie. Ins crutches shunt;
“ Saved?” shouted tin.: passengers, '‘Saved from death
“ Saved?" emeries Mary, with conscious breath.
Then helped to her feet— ■'God bless you sir!"
Ar.r.l Bill's grimy hand wipes back a tear,

"AM 'board!1’ “ Sphee-ee chee— sphee-ee-choof!''
And the iron horse moves tiis steel-rimmed hoof;