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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Unluckily,
however,
the
boy
did
not
keep
his
scientific
and
literary
work
apart,
and
the
smoking-car
was
transformed
into
a
laboratory
as
well
as
a
printing
house.
Having
procured
a
copy
of
Fresenius'
QUALITIVE
ANALYSIS
and
some
old
chemical
gear;
he
proceeded
to
improve
his
leisure
by
making
experiments.
One
day,
through
an
extra
jolt
of
the
car,
a
bottle
of
phosphorus
broke
on
the
floor,
and
the
car
took
fire.
The
incensed
conductor
of
the
train,
after
boxing
his
ears,
evicted
him
with
all
his
chattels.
Finding
an
asylum
in
the
basement
of
his
father's
house
(where
he
took
the
precaution
to
label
all
his
bottles
'poison'),
he
began
the
publication
of
a
new
and
better
journal,
entitled
the
PAUL
PRY.
It
boasted
of
several
contributors
and
a
list
of
regular
subscribers.
One
of
these
(Mr.
J.H.B.),
while
smarting
under
what
he
considered
a
malicious
libel,
met
the
editor
one
day
on
the
brink
of
the
St.
Clair,
and
taking
the
law
into
his
own
hands,
soused
him
in
the
river.
The
editor
avenged
his
insulted
dignity
by
excluding
the
subscriber's
name
from
the
pages
of
the
PAUL
PRY.
Youthful
genius
is
apt
to
prove
unlucky,
and
another
story
(we
hope
they
are
all
true,
though
we
cannot
vouch
for
them),
is
told
of
his
partiality
for
riding
with
the
engine-driver
on
the
locomotive.
After
he
had
gained
an
insight
into
the
working
of
the
locomotive
he
would
run
the
train
himself;
but
on
one
occasion
he
pumped
so
much
water
into
the
boiler
that
it
was
shot
from
the
funnel,
and
deluged
the
engine
with
soot.
By
using
his
eyes
and
haunting
the
machine
shops
he
was
able
to
construct
a
model
of
a
locomotive.
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