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Passepartout found that he could not avoid telling his master what had occurred, and, with hanging head, he was turning towards the car, when the engineer a true Yankee, named Forster called out, "Gentlemen, perhaps there is a way, after all, to get over." ¡¡¡¡"On the bridge?" asked a passenger. ¡¡¡¡"On the bridge." ¡¡¡¡"With our train?" ¡¡¡¡"With our train." ¡¡¡¡Passepartout stopped short, and eagerly listened to the engineer. ¡¡¡¡"But the bridge is unsafe," urged the conductor. ¡¡¡¡"No matter," replied Forster; "I think that by putting on the very highest speed we might have a chance of getting over." ¡¡¡¡"The devil!" muttered Passepartout. ¡¡¡¡But a number of the passengers were at once attracted by the engineer's proposal, and Colonel Proctor was especially delighted,
oil paintingand found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind. ¡¡¡¡"We have fifty chances out of a hundred of getting over," said one. ¡¡¡¡"Eighty! ninety!" ¡¡¡¡Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American. "Besides," thought he, "there's a still more simple way, and it does not even occur to any of these people! Sir," said he aloud to one of the passengers, "the engineer's plan seems to me a little dangerous, but
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