Thomas Edison  1  the first job.For the next five years he went around the country  2   job.At last Edison went to New York.He had  3  money.He could not buy enough food to eat.He has no place to sleep .
     For many days Edison  4   work.He was hungry.At last he found work fixing machines.He could mend
the old machines.He also  5   new ones.The head man liked Edison's new machines.He was going to give
Edison $40,000 for them.Edison would now have money to do  6   he wanted.
     Thomas Edison was then 23.He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey.He had many people
  7   him.But he worked more than   8  of them.He rested very little.Soon he was making more than 40 new things  9  .
     In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone.But it could carry voices only a little way.Edison
wanted to make  10  telephone.He soon made one.It could carry voices a long way.