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