BugsChapter 14
The fight with the black ants had been something of a wakeup call. One of the machine guns had been mounted on the wagon at the extreme front, and a new one was under construction to take its place at home. Connie, a very talented mechanical engineer had worked with Jeff, Jr. to come up with a method of powering the machine gun with the power take-off from the steam engine. This doubled the rate of fire, and the only drawback that anybody could find was that it used up bolts twice as fast as...