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p is throwing more water than is being 



used or whet unless. lie can only asccr- 



hing the column of water in the glass, and 



he hardly knows whether to throw in f not. He 



; want the steam to go down, and he don't know at 



rssure the pop valve will blow off. There may 



be a box or journal that has been giving the engineer 



trouble and the outsider knows nothing about it There 



i dozen other good reasons why bad habit number 



two is very bad. 



If you will watcli the poor engineer when he stops his 

 ic will, if he does anything, pick up a wrench, 

 go around to the wrist pin, strike the key a little crack, 

 draw down a nut or peck away at something else. 



thing for grease and dirt, and when he l( 



up, ten to one t pin heats, and he stops and 



loosens it up and tlun it knocks. Now if he had picked 



up a rag instead of a wrench, he would not have hit that 



hut he would have run his hand over it and if he 



found it all ri^ht. he would have let it alone, and 



ave gone over the balance of the engine, and 



i he started up again his engine would have looked 



better for the wiping it got and would have run just as 



as before he stopped it. Now you will under- 



a good engineer wears out more ratjs than wrenches, 



while a poor one wears out more wrenches than rags. 



