Steve and the Steam Engine

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An Unpremeditated Folly
26:32
A Meeting With an Old Friend
20:39
A Second Calamity
25:01
The Story of the First Railroad
23:40
Steve Learns a Sad Lesson
14:51
Mr. Tolman's Second Yarn
24:32
A Holiday Journey
22:54
New York and What Happened There
20:48
An Astounding Calamity
27:57
An Evening of Adventure
14:55
The Crossing of the Country
18:59
New Problems
12:14
Dick Makes His Second Appearance
19:11
A Steamboat Trip By Rail
18:44
The Romance of the Clipper Ship
15:58
Again the Magic Door Opens
11:11
More Steamboating
22:02
A Thanksgiving Tragedy
14:12
The End of the House Party
8:53

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About this book

Steve Tolman has borrowed his father's big six-cylinder touring car without asking, driven a crowd of schoolmates fourteen miles toward a football game, and broken down at the foot of a hill just short of Torrington. His friends walk off to the match and leave him alone by the road, wondering how he will face his family. Sara Ware Bassett opens her 1921 novel with that small, very human scrape, and the question of owning up is never far from Steve's mind.

Mr. Tolman is a railroad official, and his talks with his son become stories of how steam changed travel: the first railroad, the clipper ships, the river steamboats. A holiday trip to New York brings fresh trouble, including a lost pocketbook full of securities, a detective at the door and a quiet lesson in honesty.

Written as the second volume of The Invention Series, after Paul and the Printing Press, the book suits young readers who like engines and history told through a lively family story.

About the author

Sara Ware Bassett

Sara Ware Bassett (1872-1968) was born in Newton, Massachusetts, taught kindergarten in the town's public schools, and built a long career out of the New England she knew, publishing more than forty novels from her 1907 debut into the late 1950s.