Sara Ware Bassett
Steve and the Steam Engine
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664627247
Table of Contents
THE STORY OF THE FIRST RAILROAD
NEW YORK AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE
DICK MAKES HIS SECOND APPEARANCE
THE ROMANCE OF THE CLIPPER SHIP
Illustrations
| "It was the conquering of this multitude of defects that gave to the world the intricate, exquisitely made machine."—Frontispiece. | Frontispiece |
| "You've got your engine nicely warmed up, youngster," he observed casually. | 8 |
| "I wish you'd tell me about this queer little old-fashioned boat." | 180 |
| He was fighting to prevent himself from being drawn beneath the jagged, crumbling edge of the hole. | 244 |
STEVE AND THE STEAM ENGINE
CHAPTER I
AN UNPREMEDITATED FOLLY
Steve Tolman had done a wrong thing and he knew it.
While his father, mother, and sister Doris had been absent in New York for a week-end visit and Havens, the chauffeur, was ill at the hospital, the boy had taken the big six-cylinder car from the garage without anybody's permission and carried a crowd of his friends to Torrington to a football game. And that was not the worst of it, either. At the foot of the long hill leading into the village