MY FAILURES 
up; so I got the lamps (it had two lamps, 
one on each side) and cleaned them all up 
nicely and put in new wicks and filled 
them with oil, and proceeded to light them 
and put them in their proper places on the 
incubator. These lamps had glass chim- 
neys when they should have had metal 
ones. I don’t suppose they knew any- 
thing about metal chimneys for lamps at 
that time; anyhow, these lamps had noth- 
ing but glass chimneys and they were a 
great nuisance; for they were always get- 
ting broken, which caused a great deal of 
trouble and loss of time. But I got along 
with them the best I could. , 
Everything now being ready and the 
incubator started on her heating-up trial, 
I proceeded to regulate the blaze of the 
lamps so that both of them would give 
about the same amount of heat and also 
so that they would not be liable to smoke; 
then I left it, with the belief that it would 
soon be ready for the eggs, but when I 
came back in a few hours I could not see 
much change in the thermometer from 
what it was when I left it; but as the 
lamps had not been lit very long I thought, 
and correctly too, that I had not given it 
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