Child's First Picture Book

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Ti­tle: Child's First Pic­ture Book

Au­thor: Anony­mous

Re­lease Date: May 1, 2004 [EBook #12227]

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Child's First Pic­ture Book

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CHILD'S FIRST PIC­TURE BOOK

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THE FIRE HORS­ES stand ready in their stalls, and at the sound of the alarm gong the stall chains are let down and each horse goes quick­ly to his place at the en­gine, and the big iron col­lars are clamped around their necks and off they go to the fire, with the en­gine, at break-​neck speed.

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THE AU­TO­MO­BILE FIRE EN­GINE can go to the fires very swift­ly. Many times the sav­ing of a few min­utes by the fire­men in reach­ing a fire means stop­ping the blaze be­fore it be­comes too great.

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: A Dan­ger­ous Fire]

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THE BRAVE FIRE­MAN res­cues many peo­ple who are caught in burn­ing build­ings, in this way risk­ing his life that oth­ers may be saved from the smoke and flames. Many peo­ple owe their lives to the brav­ery of the fire­men.

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THE HOSE NOZ­ZLE has been tak­en up to the roof of a build­ing next the one afire and the fire­men are send­ing the wa­ter in­to the up­per floors of the burn­ing build­ing. The hose noz­zle is very dif­fi­cult for the fire­men to hold.

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Hook and Lad­der Truck Go­ing to the Fire]

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THE FIRE ALARM is sound­ed by a big gong in the sta­tion from street alarm box­es near where the fire oc­curs. The fire­men know these alarm sta­tions so well that they sel­dom look for the ad­dress, but dash off quick­ly to the cor­rect place.

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THE FIRE­MEN'S DOG goes to ev­ery fire, run­ning be­side the hors­es, bark­ing a com­mand to hur­ry. He gets to the fire hy­drant first and sits there pant­ing un­til the Fire­men come up to at­tach the hose and turn on the wa­ter.

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THE ROUND HOUSE is the place where the rail­road en­gines are kept when they are not work­ing. The en­gines are turned around on a big turn ta­ble so each can be run on the dif­fer­ent tracks which all lead to the turn-​ta­ble in the cen­ter.

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THE WA­TER TANK is seen fre­quent­ly along the route of the rail­roads and plen­ty of wa­ter must be tak­en on and car­ried in the en­gine ten­der to make steam which is the pow­er used to drive the big en­gines.

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AN OB­SER­VA­TION TRAIN is of­ten made up to fol­low the great col­lege boat races, where the rail­road runs along the riv­er bank. Flat cars are used with seats fixed on them for the spec­ta­tors.

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THE TRAIN FER­RY car­ries en­tire trains across rivers where there are no bridges. Some of the largest train boats have sev­er­al tracks and car­ry a train on each. The boats are tied in slips at the shore so that the tracks meet ex­act­ly those on the land.

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THE STAGE COACH is used in the coun­try where towns are few. The stages meet trains at the sta­tions and take on pas­sen­gers to be car­ried to their homes away from the rail­road. Some of the stage routes are sev­er­al hun­dred miles long.

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THE TUN­NELS are pas­sages for trains un­der moun­tains, hills and rivers. The tun­nels are dark but the trains are well light­ed. Elec­tric mo­tors are of­ten used, this avoids the smoke of steam en­gines which is very un­pleas­ant in the tun­nels.

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Di­ri­gi­ble Bal­loon]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: A Swift-​go­ing Mo­tor Cy­cle With Ma­chine Gun]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: A Bat­tle Mo­tor Car]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: An­ti-​air­craft Gun]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Army Band]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Aero­plane]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Blan­ket Toss­ing]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Sailor Band]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Bat­tle­ship And Gi­ant Sub­ma­rine]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: A Sea Sled]

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THE FLAGS OF THE AL­LIES

Unit­ed in de­fense of Free­dom in the great war in Eu­rope. May we hon­or them for­ev­er, and al­ways prove wor­thy of our flag which we love best.

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THE FLAGS OF THE AL­LIES

These are tru­ly the Flags of Free­dom. The coun­tries rep­re­sent­ed through brav­ery and sac­ri­fice have made the world a safe place to live in.

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: A Fast-​go­ing Pa­trol Mo­tor Boat]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Cut­ter Drill]

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[Il­lus­tra­tion: Sea­plane De­stroy­ing Sub­ma­rine]

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