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Title: Steve and the Steam Engine
Author: Sara Ware Bassett
Illustrator: A. O. Scott
Release Date: August 5, 2007 [EBook #22245]
Language: English
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By Sara Ware Bassett
The Invention Series
Paul and the Printing Press
Steve and the Steam Engine
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[Illustration: "It was the conquering of this multitude of defects that
gave to the world the intricate, exquisitely made machine."--Frontispiece.
See page 103.]
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The Invention Series
STEVE AND THE STEAM ENGINE
By Sara Ware Bassett
With Illustrations By A. O. Scott
Boston
Little, Brown, And Company
1921
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Copyright, 1921,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published September, 1921
The Plimpton Press
Norwood Mass U S A
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I An Unpremeditated Folly 1
II A Meeting with an Old Friend 19
III A Second Calamity 34
IV The Story of the First Railroad 51
V Steve Learns a Sad Lesson 67
VI Mr. Tolman's Second Yarn 77
VII A Holiday Journey 94
VIII New York and What Happened There 110
IX An Astounding Calamity 125
X An Evening of Adventure 145
XI The Crossing of
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