PART ONE. 



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In order to get the learner started, it is reasonable to 



>se that the engine he is to run is in good running 



1 not be fair to put the green boy onto 



an old, dilapidated, worn-out engine, for he might have 



to learn too fast, in order to get the engine running in 



good shape. He miglr > learn so fast that he 



won! -\e big head, or have no head at all, by the 



time he got through with it. And I don't know but that 



a boy without a head is about as good as an engineer 



the big he. will, therefore, suppose that his 



i good running order. By good running 



ill there, ai proper place, 



and that with from ten to twenty pounds of steam, the 



engine will start off at a good lively pace. And let us 



say here (remember that we are talking of the lone en- 



. no load ce>: f you are starting a new 



engine and it starts off nice and easy with twenty pounds, 



mr mind that yon have an engine 



that is going to be nice to handle and give you but little, 



trouhle. But if it should require fifty or 

 pounds to start it, you want to keep your eyes open; 



