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Title: Eight Stories for Isabel

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 2, 2010 [eBook #32662]

Language: English

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EIGHT STORIES FOR ISABEL.

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PORTLAND: BAILEY & NOYES.

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STEAM BOAT.

Here is a Steam Boat sailing on the water. How fast she moves. She is
carried along by wheels. See the smoke coming from the chimney. There is
a great fire in the boat, and large boilers, which hold sixty hogsheads
of water; and when this water boils, the steam comes from it so swift
and strong that it can be made to move the great wheels which are on the
outside of the boat, and these great wheels have wide paddles to them,
that are all the time beating water back.

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THE CHAIR.

You all know what this picture is; a Chair. It has a back and a seat and
four legs. I knew a little girl that got upon the back of a chair, when
her brother was sitting in it eating his breakfast, and he rose up as
soon as he had done, and the chair fell back to the floor, and his
little sister's head was so hurt that she died. You must never get upon
the back of a chair, nor pull one away when any body is going to sit
down, for the fall may break the person's back.

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