Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881

Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly

A grasshopper lay in the garden one day, Near a cabbageI mean cabbage-rose And his eyes had no snap, and his legs they were stiff, And turned very much up were his toes Dear me! His funny, incurvated toes. Along came a birdMrs. Sparrow her name And she paused and shook sadly her head, And said, "Once at hops none could beat you, but now Even I couldbecause you are dead Dear me! Alas! you're doornailedly dead. "But you shall not lie there unburied, for oft Through the night have you sang loud and shrill, And watched while I slept; so if nobody else Will bury you, G.H., I will Dear me! 'Tis a sad thing to do, but I will." Wide she opened her mouthhe was gone in a trice Then she quietly hopped out of sight; And the cabbage-rose laughed till half its leaves dropped, As I think with good reason it might Dear me! With the very best reason it might. Swift as is the steamer, the rail-car is doubly and trebly swift. Some trains in England run at the rate of seventy miles an hour. This is as fast as a balloon moves through the air, or a storm wind. It is the most rapid means of travel ever known among men, and it is only within the past thirty or forty years that the railroad has reached this rapid rate of speed. The engine used on the rail-car is smaller and more compact than the machinery of the steamer. Its piston, crank, and boiler must all be confined within a very limited space. It is the most wonderful and elegant of all the labors of the mechanic. Small, low, almost insignificant, it possesses a giant's strength, and may often be seen rushing with its long train of cars along the banks of the Hudson or over the New Jersey flats, swift as the wind. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 47732
Author: Various
Release Date: Dec 21, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English