If you had been a little child a hundred years ago, instead of now, and
had wished to travel to the seaside or any other place, do you know how
you would have got there? You would have had to travel in a coach, for
there were no trains in those days. I am afraid the little children who
lived then did not get to the seashore as often as you do, unless they
lived near it, for it cost so much money to ride in the coaches. How is
it that we have trains now?
There was a man called George Stephenson--a poor man he was; he did not
even know how to read until he went to a night school when he was
eighteen years old, but he worked and worked at the steam-engine until
he had made one that could draw a train along. So you see that because
this man and others tried and tried again, all those years ago, we have
the nice, quick trains to take us to the seaside cheaply, and to other
places as well. Like the sparrow, George Stephenson teaches us to
(Blackboard)
Try, Try Again.