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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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four hundred feet between the sourcein the Sierras and the outlet in the San FernandoReservoir. Now your friends might be workingon that job. I would advise you to go to thechief engineers office and inquire. It is onlyabout five blocks away. At the chief engineers office Jack was unableto learn anything about Mr. Barto and Perry. 345 Certainly they had never had anything to do withthe aqueduct. Furthermore, there was no sort ofa job open for Jack. It was a day of bitter dis-appointment. This was the outcome of his thou-sand weary miles of travel. For the first timesince he left home. Jack faltered. But he couldnot sit down and mope. Only a few pieces of silver jingled in his pocket. He must find a jobwithout delay, and then he could afford to stopand consider his next step. He tried a number of places without success.Finally, night overtook him and forced him topart with a large portion of his capital for a biteto eat and a place to sleep. Early the next day he was at it again, after
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A^ JACK REACHED THE EDGE OF THE TRENCH, THE EARTH GAVE WAYBENEATH HIM.. (SEE NE.XT PAGE.) 346 ON THE BATTLE-FRONT OF ENGINEERING (Feb., consulting the Help wanted section of a morn-ing paper. Near the outskirts of the city hecame across a street that was ripped open, whilea gang of men were laying a big water-main.The prospects did not look very promising.Nevertheless, he marched into the constructionshanty and applied for a job. The only job we have here is carrying wa-ter, he was told. I dont care what the work is, so long as it ishonest work, replied Jack. I 11 take the job. And so Jack became a water-boy, and had totramp along the trench in the broiling hot sunwith a pail of water and a dipper, refreshing theparched workmen. There was nothing very interesting about histask. At one end of the line the men were dig-ging the trench and shoring up the sides withplanks: at the other end they were filling it in.Between these two extremes the sections of cast-iron pipe were being laid. U

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