Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
Was he aiding the man-redeeming movements of the day, the beautiful associations, the useful bandings together for human improvement, love and truth? No.
They were out to hunt a niggergirl, who, if she got across the thousand acres in safety, swam the river and crawled her way through the next quarter mile of thicket tangle on to the slope of Booby Mountain, would be free of molestation.
Next we consider different continuous time as well as discrete jump stochastic price processes that differ from that of a Brownian motion without drift. The expected profit per buy-sell pair is derived and shown to relate to expected draw-downs, and expected draw-ups of corresponding technical trading strategies.