16 ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE ENGINEERING 



add right here that if you are inclined to be careless or 

 forgetful, (they both mean the same thing,) you are a 

 mighty poor risk for an insurance company, but on the 

 other hand, if you are careful and attentive to business, 

 you are as safe a risk as any one. Your own success and 

 the durability and life of your engine depends entirely 

 upon you, and it is not worth your while to try to shift 

 the responsibility of an accident to your engine upon 

 some one else. 



If you should go away from your engine and leave it 

 with the water boy, or anyone .jvho might be handy, or 

 leave it alone, as is often acme, and something goes 

 wrong with the engine, you are at fault. You had no 

 business to leave it; but you say you had to go to the 

 separator and help fix something there. At the separator 

 is not your place. It is not our intention to tell you how 

 to run both ends of an outfit. We could not tell you if 

 we wanted to. If the men at the separator can't handle 

 it, get someone or get your boss to get someone who can. 

 Your place is at the engine. If your engine is running 

 nicely, there is all the more reason why you should stay 

 by it, as that is the way to keep it running. I have seen 

 twenty dollars' damage done to the separator and two 

 days' time lost all because the engineer was ns near the 

 separator as he was to the engine when a root went into 

 the cylinder. Stay with your engine, and if anything 



