The Boyhood of an Inventor - Early Television Foundation

The puffing
loco
motive was pon
derous and inspir
ing, and the hiss
ing steam, music
to the youngster's
ears. It wasn't
strange, therefore,
that he should find
more attraction up
An early B. &
front than in
0. Railway locomotive
watching the folks
descending from
the cars. When he was missed there was considerable
excitement, but the mother, knowing her boy as only
mothers do, sought and found him by the great black
monster, the rods and wheels of which were being
reverently surveyed by a worshiper whose red head
scarcely reached above the cylinders.
As has been explained, the grandfather's place
was a storehouse of interest to an inquisitive,
small boy. On a certain expedition of discovery, an
old, thick gold watch, of the "turnip" type was found.
The boy was immediately seized with a burning
desire to see the inside of it, of course. Looking
about for something with which to open the watch
a hatchet was the
first thing found.
It proved to be an
entirely effective
tool. Grown-ups
don't seem to appreciate
how
quickly a boy can
open a big gold
watch with a hatch
et, and how all the
shiny wheels then
readily
come
tumbling out. But The Capital Limited 's crack locomotive
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