so I turned the tie-rods on my little engine, and they look swell
In passing, some of the followers of these notes are schoolmasters, and one of them called me over the coals for using expressions like that - well, did you ever! There I go again!- and said I didn't write perfect English. Of course, I don't; I just love to jolly well split infinitives, and ending a sentence with a preposition is one of the best ways I know of. And it ticles me no end to start one with a conjunction. But (there's another one) let's get back to the job.