Coalville Times | 1897-06-18 | Page 3 | A Puzzler

A funlr In many parts of Bouth Africa railways rail-ways are comparatively a new departure depar-ture and In consequence a large proportion pro-portion of the farmers are wholly Ignorant I Ig-norant of tho way engines work One stalwart colonist who thought himself cleverer than his companions was standing on the platform at Ulcwm fonteln tho capital ot the Orange free State during shunting operations He bad been explaining the principles ot steam motive lower to an amused crowd when suddenly the engine be gin to move backward pushing a string of trucks Ills Jaw dropped and tie gasped anti I can understand how tho engine pulls the trucks but Im blcased II 1 I know how tho trucks pull the engine back again Then the crowd yelled Answers