ine felt his boiler full of water he asked eagerly:

"Now I have water,
Now do I know
How I should go?"

But the fireman said:

"All in good time, my engine,
Steady, steady,
'Til you're ready,
Learn to know
Before you go."

Then he said to the engineer, "Now we must give our engine some coal."
So they filled the tender with coal, and then under the boiler the
fireman built a fire. Then the fireman began blowing and the coals began
glowing. And as he built the fire, the fire said:

"I am fire,
The coal I eat
To make the heat
To turn the stream
Into the steam."

When the engine felt the sleeping fire wake up and begin to live inside
him and turn the water into steam he said eagerly:

"Now I have water,
Now I have coal,
Now do I know
How I should go?"

But the engineer said:

"All in good time, my engine,
Steady, steady,
'Til you're ready.
Learn to know
Before you go."

Then he said to the fireman, "We must oil our engine well." So they took
oil cans with funny long noses and they oiled all the machinery, the
piston-rods, the levers, the wheels, everything that moved or went
round. And all the time the oil kept saying:

"No creak,
No squeak."

When the engine felt the oil smoothing all his machinery, he said
eagerly:

"Now I have water,
Now I have coal,
Now I am oiled,
Now do I know
How I should go?"

But the fireman said:

"All in good time, my engine,
Steady, steady,
'Til you're ready.
Learn to know
Before you go."

Then he said to the engineer, "We must give our engine some sand." So
they took some sand and they filled the sand domes on top of the boiler
so that he could send sand down through his two little pipes and
sprinkle it in front of his wheels when the rails were slippery. And all
the time the sand kept saying:

"When ice drips,
And wheel slips,
I am sand
Close at hand."

When the new engine felt his sand-dome filled with sand he said eagerly:

"Now I have water,
Now I have coal,
Now I am oiled,
Now I have sand,
Now do I know
How I should go?"

But the engineer said:

"All in good time, my engine,
Steady, steady,
'Til you're ready.
Learn to know
Before you go."

Then he said to the fireman, "We must light our engine's headlig