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END O' TRACK, again! With the secret of the Home Cooking restaurant kept close from Engine Driver Richards; with Pat Miles urging the work, and the red-shirted, gray-shirted, blue-shirted Irish track-layers and spikers and ballasters sweating, and the sledges whanging, and the truck-loads of rails hauled by Jimmie Muldoon and brother astride horse and yellow mule rumbling up, and the puffing construction-train constantly elbowing the boarding-train out of the way, and the cheery song breaking forth ever and anon:
"Drill, my paddies, drill! / Drill, you tarriers, drill! / Oh, it's work all day, / No sugar in your tay -- / Wor-rkin' on th' U. Pay. Ra-a-ailway!"