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We held this tube over a flame until the water in the tube 

 boiled. We put a little stopper in the side hole and the 

 steam which the water made pushed the stopper from a little 

 way in the tube to the end and then popped out on the floor. 

 It came out because the steam had such a pressure. 



(There follow several papers on James Watt, George 

 Stephenson, and Robert Fulton, showing the invention and 

 development of the steam engine. The experiments with 

 steam preceded the stories of the inventors, so that their 

 work might be more fully appreciated.) 



II. 



One story is chosen from the many written by the pupils 

 on early California. 



FINDING MONTEREY 



Portola came back to San Diego discouraged and said 

 there was no Monterey. But Father Junipero Serra who 

 had heard Portola's story thought that they had 'found the 

 bay, but didn't know it. Portola was so discouraged that 

 he wanted to go back to New Spain. He said. " Our food is 

 giving out, and we shall starve to death if we don't go back. 

 Measure out the food and see how long we can stay, and on 

 the next day we will start." So they measured out the food 

 and it would just keep them twenty days. The days dragged 

 by and the nineteenth day came. They packed their bag- 

 gage, and fixed the vessel, and were already to start, but 

 early on the twentieth morning a cry rang through the camp, 

 " A sail ! A sail !" They all ran out and there was a sail in 

 a distance. This ship brought food and a letter. 



