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`` Our time is n't up for two days . '' `` I know ; but they might forget . Well start early . '' They did , and before noon had completed arrangements , paid the twenty dollars , signed an agreement to pay forty more , and were told they could take the engine . `` How are we going to get it home ? '' asked Cole , as he and Bert , with the Jamesville fire chief , went out to look at the hand engine . It was in a shed , back of the place where the new chemical machine was housed .