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]EIGHT 12
STORIES
FOR
ISABEL.

PORTLAND:
BAILEY & NOYES

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]EIGHT
STORIES
FOR
ISABEL. PORTLAND:
BAILEY & NOYES.

[2]
]

STEAM BOAT.

Here is a Steam Boat sailing on the water. How fast she moves. She is carried along by wheels. See the smoke coming from the chimney. There is a great fire in the boat, and large boilers, which hold sixty hogsheads of water; and when this water boils, the steam comes from it [3] ]so swift and strong that it can be made to move the great wheels which are on the outside of the boat, and these great wheels have wide paddles to them, that are all the time beating water back.