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Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

CHAPTER VII
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But jest think of fifty thousand horse-power.

Why, if they wuz hitched in front of each other with lines about the usual length, the line would reach more than a hundred miles.

Why, the very idee is staggerin' to the intellect.
But, there it was right there before our eyes grindin' out power to run this monster Exposition, and not complainin' or needin' the whip as the fifty thousand horses would, only jest knucklin' down stiddy to the work, groanin' considerable loud, and who blames it.

And you could see everything in the line of engines from the little half horse-power gas engine, about half the mair's strength, about cow power, mebby, and from this up to a steam turbin of eight thousand horse-power, a rotary steam engine.

And in the Belgian exhibit wuz a gas engine of three thousand horse-power, a common sized horse can be driv through its cylinders, it takes about thirty tons of coal a day to run it.


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