The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 169
that practice wasthe great thing; and, fitted with wings, he jumpedfirst from a chair, and afterward from a window,and then from the roof of a small house. In thelast experiment he sailed over a cottage roof, butsoon after sold his wings to a peddler—and prob-ably saved his own life. Another…
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