Sankey's Double Header The oldest man in the train service didn't pretend to say how long Sankey had worked for the company.
It was talked over for an hour, and orders were finally given by the superintendent to rig up the Double Header and get against the snow as quick as it could be made ready.
And with a volley of jokes between the cabs, and a laughing and a yelling between toots, down went Sankey's Double Header again into the Blackwood gorge.
The forester wants us to try to hold the header by back-firing.
Lew," said Charley of a sudden, "while we are beating out these flames here, there may be another header in front of us traveling like a racehorse.
Nowhere could be seen a header of flame jutting out far in advance of the main line.
Then Willie answered: "Forester says find header and back-fire.
And with a volley of jokes between the cabs and a laughing and yelling between toots, down went Sankey's double-header again into the Blackwood gorge.
When the right spot was reached the fellow took a header in the dark boldly enough, but he did not know that the storm had come with a very high October tide, and washed the nets away.
It was talked over an hour, and orders were finally given by the superintendent to rig up the double-header and get against the snow with it.
The first headerwas constructed by William Pitt in 1786.
That ingenious Dutchman Conrad Heresbach refers, in his Husbandry, to Palladius' description of the Gallic header with small respect, which indicates that in the sixteenth century it was no longer in use.
Footnote 96: As the Gallic headerhere described by Varro is the direct ancestor of our modern marvellous self-binding harvester, it is of interest to rehearse the other ancient references to it.
A single header is used as it is less than 4 feet long.
Where a header is more than 4 feet in length, it should be doubled, as shown.
He took a mild header from the spring-board without more than ordinary splashing, and swam across the pool and back in fair style.
If some one came in here, walking in the dark, he might take a nasty header down this hole.
And I think I know where to find one," said Lil Artha, hastening away, "because I took a header over it when we were chasing the dago woman.
In a little sandy cove of one of these islands, they took luncheon al fresco, previously enjoying the luxury of a bath, all taking a header at once and making all the noise they could to keep the sharks at bay.
They saw him take a graceful headerinto the agitated water, where the boys were gathering.
None of them felt like taking a header into such a gulf, since a fall might break limbs, or do even worse.
The boat steerer now makes his way aft, and takes the steering oar, while the header goes forward and takes charge of the line.
Note: defense is responsibility of Portugal *Macedonia, Header Macedonia has proclaimed independent statehood but has not been formally recognized as a state by the United States.
Three header boxes were awaiting the arrival of teams and drivers.
When they arrived at the place indicated by the owner, they found the header with the horses hitched ready for starting.
Method of connecting a header to a battery of boilers.
The figures show top and side views of a main header carried in suitable frames fitted with adjustable roller.
The pipe should slope a trifle downward toward the header and a suitable drain provided.
You jump plump into a furious lot of the girl's relatives; you might as well take a header into a leech-pond.
Didn't shoot her; broke my gun when I took that header down the mountain.
We must get that header set up to-night if we can.
All day the header clattered to and fro with Bert or Ans astride the rudder, a cloud of dust rolling up from the ground, out of which the painted flanges of the reel flashed like sword-strokes.
If it is summer, and there are swimming facilities, a header or two does no harm, but men should not be allowed to strike out hard in swimming, when under hard rowing rules.
He must not only be able to take a header and swim the distance, but must also swim in approved form so as to be capable of swimming in his clothes.
On larger areas and especially where the wheat is quite ripe, the header is commonly and widely used.
On the way to Ogden we saw several headers at work on the wheat fields, and these served to awaken me from the dazed condition in which the only kind of a header I had ever known had put me.
On the way I dropped the machine and ran a quarter of a mile across a wheat field to see a header and thresher at work.
A large box wagon is driven along at the left of the header and the wheat is carried up on this cloth roller and loaded into this wagon.
A very amusing game was played, each alternately committing suicide off the edge of the bath while the other took a header to her rescue from the elevation which we just now saw Sally on ready to plunge.
Gay-Header in reply, raising some old war-whoop to the skies; as every oarsman in the strained boat involuntarily bounced forward with the one tremendous leading stroke which the eager Indian gave.
There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good.
