Then we will proceed to the exciting incidents of this story, which will describe a most exciting trip into a strange region.
The Steam Horse was the pattern of an ordinary equine done in steel. The body was made of steel plates, ingeniously fastened with various joints and bosses.
It is easy enough to make the likeness of a horse thus, but to make it mechanical, to gallop and display other evidences of life, is by no means so easy.
Frank Reade, Jr., realized this, but he was not one to be baffled in a given undertaking.
He was some while in studying out the problem.
But it came at last.
Of course, to go with the Horse there must be a wagon.
But first Frank designed the mechanism of the Horse.
In the plan which he drew, he located the furnace in the chest of the Horse, with a door to open so that coal could be thrown in.
The main body of the Horse contained the boiler. It was an easy matter thus to get up steam.