The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-10
TALES OF YANKEE ENcHANTMENT
The Boy Who Made a Trolley Car,
A Nonsense story.


Copyright 1899 by Charles Battell
Looms.)
George Starbuek had always lived in
the country, which was the best thing
that could have happened to him. Have
you ever -thought, you city child, how
little chance you have to become great
or famous. You may become rich. but
the chances are that you viii never be-
come President, and all because you were
unfortunate enough to be born and
brought up in the city.
You have been taught to laugh each
week at the poor countryman who is pic
tured in the comic weeklies as a sort of
cross between a monkey and a sharper,
but the countryfnau learned what neigh
borliness meant when he was a boy and
you will never know its meaning, unless
you leave the crowded city before 1t is too
late. Go up into the country and learn to
be neighborly and sef-reliant and you
may get into the history books, and flu
ture little boys will have to learn all about
you as you have 20 about George Wash
ington and Gen. Grant and Daniel Web
ster and Chauncey NJ. Depew-all country
boys
George Starbuck lives at Graytown near
Worcester In Massachusetts, and he could
MAKE any lNliS IDdt ne uSiAl tNCA oSCA-
At he made a wagon, whiting the
wheels out of soft pine wood and his faith
er rode in it half hour before it fell TO
pieces and broke his leg.
So when Mr. Starbuck took George to.
Boston and showed him trolley cars or
"electrics," which is the absurd name they
give them there, George said: IN make
one when 1 get home" Remember he was
only 49, But make one he did. How he
knew what kind of timber to use passes
me. but at the end of a week he called
his father out to his workshop, which had
formerly been a wagon shed, and there
was trolley car. life size and for all the
world like one of those that run ont to
Cambridge and Arlington.
MIR. Starbuck was delighted. what are
you going to do with it, my son?' asked
he.
''Well, had some thoughts of selling it,"
said George, but after all money is not
everything, so now / think I'll take you
and mother and party.of neighbors down
to Boston in it. and when 1 get there the
neighbors can go sightseeing and I'll
make enough money running it to raise
the mortgage that is on this farm"
When you grow up you will find that
farmers raise a great many things on
their FARMS but that mortgages are some
times very hard to raise, but it is a heap
of satisfaction to raise one, so you see
George was good boy to answer his faith
er in that way.
There 3 no. 93rngsA IKE the present for
things that are pleasant said Mr.. Star
buck, so they decided to take the trolley
TO Boston the very next day Now you
may have taken the trolley to Boston
yourself but not in the way they took it
-on a platform car.
eThey invited their neighbors to come
early next morning and start with them
for Boston and twenty accepted the invita-
ton. George and his father and mother
ran the heavy trolley car upon a low
hung wagon that they used when they
wanted to carry plate glass to market and
then the neighbors and all piled into the
car and George hitched a pair of cattle
which is country for a yoke of oxen-to
the wagon and they were drawn down to
-he station with ease. 1t was, of course
easier to take the car off the wagon than
to put it on. They started the willing
oxen home, sure that they would find
their way by themselves. Then they all