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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