Willy's travels on the railroad (Registro nro. 117133)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PZ |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Marcet, Mrs. |
| Fuller form of name | (Jane Haldimand), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1769-1858 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Willy's travels on the railroad |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-06-28 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Mary Meehan and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net ((This file was produced from images generously made available by the Toronto Public Library)) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Willy's travels on the railroad : Intended for young children" by Mrs. Marcet is a children's didactic tale written in the mid-19th century. It follows an inquisitive boy, Willy, whose railway journey with his parents turns into a string of lively lessons about steam power, travel, manners, industry, and nature. Through meetings with fellow passengers and townspeople and visits to an inn, an arboretum, a factory, a farm, and a country house, the story blends gentle moral guidance with clear, practical explanations aimed at young readers. The opening of the story finds six-year-old Willy at a bustling station, learning that locomotives run by steam and marveling at speed, perspective, carriage classes, and the eerie whistle before a dark tunnel prompts talk of shafts and construction. A vignette with a spoiled child and a stern but fair old lady leads to a lesson in self-control and rewards, then a stop at Wolverton and a discussion of the “infirmities” of old and young. Moving to an open third-class carriage, Willy befriends a market girl bound for Derby who speaks of her blind mother’s hoped-for cure and the public Arboretum created by Joseph Strutt; at an inn he learns how paying “a little more” works and practises honesty and restraint while fruit picking with the landlady’s daughter. An evening at the Arboretum reunites him with the market girl’s family; the children play, make daisy chains, and receive a new ball, while conversations explain factories (water- and steam-power, children piecing broken threads) and farm life’s give-and-take. A visit to the Milford cotton mill and its great water-wheel cements these lessons, before the family reaches Grandmamma’s country house, where Willy begins tending his own small garden and discovers peas, lettuces, and the homely spinning-wheel—a calm segue to further instruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Children's stories |
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| Uncontrolled term | Nature stories |
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| Uncontrolled term | Country life -- Juvenile fiction |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Railroad stories |
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| Uncontrolled term | Families -- Juvenile fiction |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76408">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76408</a> |
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