In Winter Quarters 



you old bankers or modern steel- 

 makers, and maybe it will not. Any- 

 how, the boy knows now that this 

 great pioneer safe-deposit thing was 

 possibly six feet high, not more. 



I could tell you also of a little inci- 

 dent connected with the construction 

 of a railway through the sleepy old 

 village of this same boy's youth. At 

 one point the locating engineers were 

 forced to run the line through a hill, 

 and across a ravine. I use these words 

 advisedly, because when the construc- 

 tion gangs did the work a small boy 

 stood for hours watching the great 

 "cut" and "fill" gradually being 

 brought together at the requisite 

 grade, and knew therefore from first- 

 hand source what a stupendous under- 

 taking it really was! Do you care to 

 know how deep that cutting is now, 

 and that self-same "fill"? I will be 

 liberal and record the fact that they 

 must be somewhere between 15 and 

 20 feet! That boy will never forget 

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