Excerpt from The Canadian New First, Second and Third Year Examinations for Engineers and Firemen: Complete Explanatory and Instructive Answers to the Three Series of Examination Questions, Covering in Detail Locomotive Firing, Including Combustion and Care of the Boiler While these answers are intended to aid and as sist students to prepare for examinations they are not intended to be copied or learned by heart with out a full and complete understanding of the sub jeeta covered. This understanding can be acquired only by actual experience together with observation and study and it is for the purpose of helping the fireman to educate himself in that manner that this little book is sent forth upon its mission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.