"Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" Quotes
A determined steam shovel named Mary Anne helps Mike Mulligan prove that old-fashioned methods can still get the job done.
picture books | 56 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There's nothing like digging canals and railroads and digging for foundations for splendid skyscrapers!
Mike Mulligan had been a steam shovel operator for many years.
Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne had never been late before.
But when the new gasoline shovels came along, suddenly nobody wanted steam shovels anymore.
You'll never get through in time!
You'll have to dig a little faster.
They just dug faster and faster until they were digging as fast as one hundred men.
They dug so fast and so well that they could have dug all day and all night.
But the trouble was that no one knew about the cellar.
They were so tired that they could hardly move.
