"You, what's your name——?"
"Jarvis."
"Well, Jarvis, I'll put you up on the charging platform. You won't have much to do there——"
"Where is the charging platform?" interrupted Bob.
"At the top of the furnace, fifty feet up there in the air. How do you like it?"
"Fine!" answered Jarvis, though without his usual enthusiasm. "What am I do when I get there?"
"Dump the charges into the furnace. The skips you have nothing to do with, except to ring a bell when you are ready for them. They will dump four loads of red ore into the furnace; then you throw in a layer of coke and limestone, the latter being called 'flux.' This makes what we call the charge. Is that clear?"
"Yes. What do I do then?"
"You do it all over again and you keep doing it until another man comes to take the job off your hands."
"How do I get up there?"