Excerpt from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 13: An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative; Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport; April 1904, to September 1904 Whilst walking along I heard the slight hissing which betokens a small leakage in the vacuum brake, and I judged immediately that this ought to be made right in order to avoid any risk of accident. It would be a light, easy job, I supposed; and as there was, according to my reckoning, plenty of time to do it myself, I got down under the carriage to put it right. I certainly made a mistake in not calling out to the guard or driver that I was going to do this, but my mind was so intent on avoiding any risk to the train's passengers, and I expected the job to be so easily and quickly done, that I never thought about that at the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.