"I think you ought to be Secretary.

You can write well, and you'll keep everything in order." "Very well," said Kate, "I'll be Secretary." "I think," said Harry, "that we have now about all the officers we want, excepting, of course, an Engineer, and I shall be Engineer; for I have planned out the whole thing already." "I didn't know there was to be an engine," said Kate.
"Engine!" exclaimed Harry, laughing.

"That's a good one! I don't mean an engineer of a steam-engine.

What we want is a Civil Engineer; a man who lays out railroad lines and all that kind of thing.

I'm not right sure that a Civil Engineer does plan out telegraph lines; but it don't make any difference what we call the officer.