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which seemed to rise and fall according 

 as we dashed over bridges and embank- 

 ments, or through cuttings. You must 

 often have heard this clanking; to our sur- 

 prise the driver, who seemed to know all 

 sorts of things about his steed, confessed 

 ignorance as to the origin of this strange 

 noise. 



" You never hear it when we have a 

 rare good load on, but always do so when 

 we run light, or with only a wee bit 

 behind the tender," said he. While the 

 driver and fireman were quite steady on 

 their feet, just as sailors are, we swayed 

 about and twice fell upon the coal, getting 

 up not only sore, but more than a little 

 grimy. 



It was an autumn morning and just get- 

 ting light when at 6.10 we backed down 

 to the grubby looking coaches already 

 mentioned. 



We remarked to the driver that they 

 seemed anything but modern. ' You are 

 right," he replied, " they were built more 

 than fifty years ago and when they were 



