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Nearly all that day the Winkyminky paddled bravely on her way, and then, all of a sudden, she stopped. A large cog-wheel, which was a part of her machinery, had broken. The engineer had known this wheel was going to break; but he hoped it would last till they got to Jacksonville.
Everybody was greatly disturbed at this accident, especially when the captain told them it could not have occurred in a worse place.