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The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson

Note 28 — Chapter IV

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At one part of the road he was once pulled off his donkey by some mischievous boys, and released by a young man named James Burnet. Many years after, Burnet was taken on as a workman at the Newcastle factory, probably owing his selection in some measure to the above circumstance.

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