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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.

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THE CHAIR.

You all know what this picture is; a Chair. It has a back and a seat and four legs. I knew a little girl that got upon the back of a chair, when her brother was sitting in it eating his breakfast, and he rose up as soon as he had done, and the [5] chair fell back to the floor, and his little sister’s head was so hurt that she died. You must never get upon the back of a chair, nor pull one away when any body is going to sit down, for the fall may break the person’s back.

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THE SHIP.

This Ship is carried along by the wind, which blows against her white sails, which you can see all spread from the mast.

Her hull sits on the water and