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from actual, measurement what it was), he said, ' Well, 

 that's what we always call it.' When I told him 

 that that referred to the space between the up and 

 down raUs, he replied that he supposed it did ; but 

 as to the actual measurement, neither he nor his 

 stoker possessed the least notion. Two of the 

 drivers of whom I inquired gave the correct dimen- 

 sions exactly, even to the half inch. 



