 Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4591857Full view - About this book
 | Locomotive engineers - 1907 - 600 pages
...nine miles an hour. Another member of the committee pressed the witness a little further and said, "Suppose now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of niue or ten miles an hour, aud that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Locomotives - 1868 - 530 pages
...of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little farther. He put the following case : " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along...get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ?" " Yes," replied the witness, with a twinkle in his eye, " very... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - Children - 1868 - 158 pages
...kingdom. The farmers there never complain." " Well," asked one of them, " suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? " " Yes," answered Stephenson, with a droll twinkle in his eye,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Locomotives - 1868 - 520 pages
...of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little farther. He put the following case : " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of uine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...the members of the Committee put the following case: "Suppose now one of these engines to bo going on a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour,...get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ?" " Yes," replied Stephenson, with a smile, "very awkward— /or... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1870 - 552 pages
...attempt to puzzle poor Stephenson as he developed pertinaciously his dream of lines of railway, said, " Suppose now, one of these engines to be going along...or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray on the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance... | |
 | 1870 - 340 pages
...locomotive which could run twelve miles an hour. One of the learned counsel thought to pose him by asking, "Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along...railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and tha4 a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the eng' would not that, think you, be... | |
 | 1872 - 456 pages
...One of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little further, and put the following case: 'Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along...an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ¥ ' Yes/ replied the witness with a twinkle... | |
 | Adolph Sutro - Sutro Tunnel (Nev.) - 1872 - 104 pages
...of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little further, and put the following case; " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along...hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line: would not that, think you, be a very awkward circum80 stance?" ';Yes," replied the witness, with a... | |
 | United States. Commission upon the Sutro Tunnel (1872) - 1872 - 1070 pages
...the committee pressed the witness a little further, and put the following case: "Suppose^ now, one jf these engines to be going along a railroad at the...an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line : would not that, think you, be a very awkward ciroumstance?" "Yns," replied the witness, with a twinkle... | |
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