THAT • POOR, CRAZY, MAN,—STEPHENSON. 747 time! How the outside passengers of these old Coaches,by night, worn out, and overpowered by sleep, avoidedfalling off the top, seems a problem. Puffing Billy. Well! dear Reader, it is not a Beauty, but Puffing Billywas the first of those Iron Horses which… … (1825) The First Locomotive. did his little best! For we learn that on the 27thSeptember, 1825, That poor crazy man!—GeorgeStevenson,—persisted in trying his new fangled Loco-motive No. I. The wheels will never bite or grip therails,—many thought. Two or three Wagons loadedwith coal and…
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