Capitolo 21
agricultural labourer; for to take he/she takes care of him of cows he proceeded in the due duration
(with a splendid advance of twopence) to conducting the horses to the
you plough, thistles of spudding, and hoeing turnips on the farm of his/her employer.
But the native tendency of a powerful mind usually appears very soon;
and also during the days when Geordie anchors you/he/she was stumbling through the
sod of coolness ploughed or driving the cows to pasture with a group of
filbert understands, its taste for the mechanics felt was already manufactured a lot in a
marked and practical way. During all of his/her leisure time, the future
engineer and his/her friend intimate Bill Thirlwall occupied him with doing
clay models of motors, and being all right on a car of winding with corks and
as those that lifted the baskets of coal mine twists. Although Geordie
Stephenson didn't go to school to the teacher of village, he was teaching
him in his/her his/her own near observation way and acute understanding of
all the cars and motors with which he could meet.
To such boy, the great ambition of his/her life naturally owed, to be
released by to hoe and spudding, and it put to work to his/her father
coal mine. Gran was the joy of Geordie, therefore when he was finally picked up
on there in the ability of a coal-picker, to clarify the loads from
stones and garbage. It was not a very dignified position, to be sure but
it was the first footstep of which you/he/she has conducted the way to the construction the
Liverpool and Platform of Manchester. Geordie was free enough now from the
non congenial toil of the life of farm, and able to follow his really
inclinations in the direction of mechanic jobs. It was not besides him,
earning the great sum of six pennies one day as picker, increased to
eightpence a few later, when he of rose to the more person responsible and
serious job to drive the gin-horse? Indeed one proud day was for him
when, to fourteen, he was finally permitted to help his/her father in to shoot
the motor of coal mine; although still he was such very small boy that him