The Iron Horse
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. The Iron Horse
Chapter One. Treats of the Engine-Driver’s House and Household
Chapter Two. The Driver Visits a Little Elderly Gentlewoman and Prepares the Iron Horse for Action
Chapter Three. In which the Widow holds Converse with a Captain, makes the Acquaintance of a Young Man, and receives a Telegraphic Shock, which ends in a Railway Journey
Chapter Four. A Double Dilemma and its Consequences
Chapter Five. An Accident and its Consequences
Chapter Six. History of the Iron Horse
Chapter Seven. Little Gertie comes out in a New Light, and Bob Receives Good News
Chapter Eight. Mrs Marrot and Bob Visit the Great Clatterby “Works.”
Chapter Nine. Concerning Domestic Economy and Difficulties—Surprises and Explanations
Chapter Ten. Sharp Practice
Chapter Eleven. Sharp Practice—Continued
Chapter Twelve. Loo’s Garden
Chapter Thirteen. Treats of Railway Literature, Sleepy Porters, Crowded Platforms, Foolish Passengers, Dark Plotters, Lively Shawls, and Other Matters
Chapter Fourteen. Which is too Full of Varied Matter to be Briefly Described
Chapter Fifteen. Treats of Mrs Durby’s Lost Parcel in Particular, and of Lost-Luggage in General
Chapter Sixteen. Describes Engineering Difficulties, a Perplexing Case, and a Harmonious Meeting
Chapter Seventeen. Gertie is Mysteriously cared for—Sam Natly Dines under Difficulties in Connexion with the Block System
Chapter Eighteen. A Soirée Wildly Interrupted, and Followed up by Surprising Revelations
Chapter Nineteen. A Run-away Locomotive
Chapter Twenty. A Nest “Harried.”
Chapter Twenty One. The Diamond Ring and the Railway Clearing-House
Chapter Twenty Two. Mrs Tipps goes on a Journey, and meets a Gentleman who, with much Assurance, comments freely on Insurance
Chapter Twenty Three. Details a Terrible Accident
Chapter Twenty Four. Results of the Accident
Chapter Twenty Five. The Last
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Next day John Marrot spent the brief period of repose accorded by the doctor to his leg in romping about the house with the baby in his arms. Being a large man, accustomed to much elbow-room and rapid motion, and the house being small, John may be said to have been a dangerous character in the family on such occasions. Apart from baby, no elephant was ever more sluggish in his motions; but when coupled—professionally speaking—to his own tender infant, John knew no bounds, his wife knew no rest and his baby knew no higher earthly bliss.
Sometimes it was on his shoulder, sometimes on his head and often on his foot, riding with railway speed to “Banbury Cross.” Again it was on its back in the crib or on the bed being tickled into fits of laughter, which bid fair at times to merge into fits of convulsion, to the horror of little Gertie, who came in for a large share of that delightful holiday’s enjoyment, but whose spirit was frequently harrowed with alarm at the riotous conduct of her invalid father. In his glee the man might have been compared to a locomotive with a bad driver, who was constantly shutting off the steam and clapping on the brakes too soon or too late, thus either falling short of or overshooting his mark. What between the door and the dresser, the fire, the crib, the window, and the furniture, John showed himself a dreadfully bad pilot and was constantly running into or backing out of difficulties. At last towards the afternoon of that day, while performing a furious charge round the room with baby on his head, he overturned the wash-tub, which filled the baby with delirious joy, and Gertie with pleasurable alarm.
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“W’y, let me see,” said John, touching his forehead, “it was yesterday evenin’ w’en I came up with the northern express.”
“But many accidents might have happened since yesterday evening,” said Mrs Tipps, still in an anxious tone.
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