Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 393
locomotive, and studying the rails,and the cars, every chance I got. I tell you itwas a grand opportunity for a boy like me! 900 THE BOY WHO RODE ON THE FIRST TRAIN [Aug., Such an opportunity as will never come to an-other boy in the United States of America. Thelocomotive was built down in New… … THE BOY WHO RODE ON THE FIKST TRAIN. and sent over here, and they called it the JohnBull, and boy as I was, I kept looking over thenew engine that had been built here in our owncountry, and hoping it was better than the Eng-lish engine. As I said, railroading was a pretty new thins>in those…
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