She described the locomotive, the engineer leaning out of its window, and the sweating fireman who shoveled coal into its hungry vitals.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
The engineer and fireman had not been discharged, but were acting as watchmen, and Burke strongly recommended that they should be engaged immediately, because, as he said, if Mrs. Cliff were to let them go it would be difficult to get such men again.
"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht"
Frank R. Stockton