. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. He whittledout the model of a tiny paddle wheel. Then hewent to work with Chris Gumpf, and thet made alarger paddle wheel. This they set up in the fish-ing boat. The wheel was turned by the boys witha crank. They did not use the poles any more. THE FIRST STEAMBOAT. The first good steam-boat was built in NewYork. She was built by Robert Fulton. Hername was Cler-mont. When the people saw her,they laughed. They said that such a boat wouldnever go. For thousands of years boat-men hadmade their boats go by using sails and had never seen
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. He whittledout the model of a tiny paddle wheel. Then hewent to work with Chris Gumpf, and thet made alarger paddle wheel. This they set up in the fish-ing boat. The wheel was turned by the boys witha crank. They did not use the poles any more. THE FIRST STEAMBOAT. The first good steam-boat was built in NewYork. She was built by Robert Fulton. Hername was Cler-mont. When the people saw her,they laughed. They said that such a boat wouldnever go. For thousands of years boat-men hadmade their boats go by using sails and had never seen any such boat as this. Itseemed foolish to believe that a boat could bepushed along by steam. The time came for Fulton to start his boat. Acrowd of people were standing on the shore. Theblack smoke was coming out of the people were laughing at the boat. They weresure that it would not go. lOO At last the boats wheels began to turn the boat began to move. There were nooars. There were no sails. But still the boat kept. moving Seeing the First Steam-boat. Faster and faster she wTnt. All the people now saw that she could go by steam, They did not laugh any more. They began to cheer. The little steam-boat ran up to Al-ba-ny. Thepeople who lived on the river did not know whatto make of it. They had never heard of a steam-boat. They could not see what made the boat go. There were many sailing vessels on the boat passed some of these in the night. lOI The sailors were afraid when they saw the fire andsmoke. The sound of the steam seemed dreadfulto tliem. Some of them went down-stairs intheir ships for fear. Some of them went they thought it was a living animal thatwould eat them up. But soon there were steam-boats on all the largerivers. WASHINGTON IRVING AS A BOY. The Revolution was about over. Americanswere very happy. Their country w^as to be free. At this time a little boy was born in New family was named Ir-ving. W
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