The beginner's American history . s wanted to go with their familiesin wagons, they had to chop roads through the was slow, hard work. Fulton found a way that wasquick, easy, and cheap. Let us see who he was, and howhe found that way. 193. Robert Fultons boyhood; the old scow; what Robertdid for his mother. — Robert Fulton was the son of a poorIrish farmer in Pennsylvania.^ He did not care much forbooks, but liked to draw pictures with pencils which hehammered out of pieces of lead. Like most boys, he was fond of fishing. He used to goout in an old scow, or flat-bottomed boat, on a
The beginner's American history . s wanted to go with their familiesin wagons, they had to chop roads through the was slow, hard work. Fulton found a way that wasquick, easy, and cheap. Let us see who he was, and howhe found that way. 193. Robert Fultons boyhood; the old scow; what Robertdid for his mother. — Robert Fulton was the son of a poorIrish farmer in Pennsylvania.^ He did not care much forbooks, but liked to draw pictures with pencils which hehammered out of pieces of lead. Like most boys, he was fond of fishing. He used to goout in an old scow, or flat-bottomed boat, on a river nearhis home. He and another boy would push the scowalong with poles. But Robert said. There is an easier wayto make this boat ^., go. I can put apair of paddle-wheels on her,and then we cansit comfortably ^ Robert Fultons Paddle-wheel Scow. on the seat and turn the wheels by a crank. He tried it, and found that 1 Fulton was born in Little Britain (now called Fulton) in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania. See map on page 152 THE BEGINNER S AMERICAN HISTORY. he was right. The boys now had a boat which suitedthem exactly. When Robert was seventeen, he went to father was dead, and he earned his living and helpedhis mother and sisters, by painting pictures. He staid inPhiladelphia until he was twenty-one. By that time hehad saved up money enough to buy a small farm for hismother, so that she might have a home of her own. 194. Fulton goes to England and to France ; his iron bridges;his diving-boat, and what he did with it in France. — Soonafter buying the farm for his mother, young Fulton wentto England and then to France. He staid in those coun-tries twenty years. In England Fulton built some famousiron bridges, but he was more interested in boats than inanything else. While he was in France he
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