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I held my watch to die lam plight—
Tun minutes behind the time!
Lost in the slackened motion
Of the up-grade'-; heavy climb;
15i.ll I knew the miles of the Tjrairie
Thai; stretched a level track.
So I touched the gunge of die boilc?1
And pulled the lover back.

Over the mils a-gl earning,
Thirty an hour, or so,
The engine leaped like a demon,

Breathing a llcry glow ;
But to nie— ahold of the lever—

II so o mod a chi I cl ahvav,
t' T
Trustful and always ready
M y lightest touch to obey.

f was proud, you know, of my engine.
Holding it steady that night,
And my eye on the track bclc-vc us, '
Ablaze with die Drummond light.
We neared a well-known cobsji,
Where a child of three or foil/,
As the up train passed, oft called me,
A p’aying aro.inci the door.

M y hand was firm on the thro'tde
A i we swept around the curve,
When something alar in the shadow,
Struck fire through every nerve.
1 sounded the brakes, and crashing
The reverse lever down in dismay,
Groaning to Heaven-— eighty p<?ces
Ahead was the child at its play !