Part 1 (2/2)

It rose and fell, fluttered and danced

Now, Ja people who believed in witches and fairies

So he atching for them

And he thought there was soet out

So he said, ”Who are you and what do you want?”

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”If you will only let me out, I'll work hard for you

I'll draw your carriages and shi+ps

I'll lift all your weights

I'll turn all the wheels of your factories

I'll be your servant always, in a thousand other ways”

[Illustration: JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT, 1788

By perton Steamshi+p Co]

If you have now guessed the coiant, ill call him Steam

At the time James Watt lived, there were no steam boats, steam mills, nor railways

And this boy, though his grandiant in the tea-kettle

And he becaine that was of any use to the world

So, little by little, people caiant

They tried in many different ways to make him useful

They wished very much to make him run a boat

One man tried to run his boat in a queer way

He h the water

Anothera stream of water in at the bow and out at the stern

Then came a man named John Fitch

He ine run a number of oars so as to paddle the boat forward