A gentleman on board a steamboat with* bis family was' asked by bis children “ what made the boat go ?” when be gave them a very minute description .of., the machinery and its principles in the following words’;—“'Yeti': • see, my "dears,, this’ thingumbob here goes down through that hole and fastens the jigmaree, and that cbniifects Withthe crinkmmerankum ; and then-that man—he’s, the : engineer, you know—kind o’ stirs up the what-dp-you-call it with a long poker, .and they all shove along,' and the boat goes a-liead; ; *
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 114, 13 May 1876, Page 2
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84Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 114, 13 May 1876, Page 2
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