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morning, and Jap looked up about the steam 

 gauge until the engineer showed him where 

 and after a brief discussion between the two, 

 Jap confessed that he had never fired before. 

 But the engineer liked his nerve so he kept him. 



He fired about six weeks and was given an 

 extra engine to run. So heavy was the wheat 

 crop in the upper country that within a year 

 Jap was running a yard engine in a Tacoma 

 yard ; a most important position. They had a 

 yard speed limit in Tacoma when Jap hit 

 town, but none afterward. He switched 



