Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 98
fduty as nurse was to keep his little brothers andsisters from under the hoofs of the horses whichVol. III.—6. drew the coal-cars on the tram-way—a woodenrailroad leading from a coal-mine, which ran nearhis fathers door. At this early age, while watch-ing the coal-trains passing, he conceived the… … VOUNG GEORGE THINKS IT OVER. cars as could be moved by a great team of fiftyhorses. The idea did not pass away from the brain ofGeorge Stephenson when he was removed from hishome at nine years of age, and hired out, at fourcents a day, to tend the cows of a neighboringfarmer. He had enough of…
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