The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 78
sconsidered a marvel indeed. After this was done,he undertook to make a perfect imitation of anightingales song by clockwork; and after longstudy and hard work he was successful in thistask also. He sold these two contrivances for seven thou-sand francs —fourteen hundred dollars. His writer, which… … VeiSurN oia«Wwj. THE MAGICIAN AS HOUDIN PRESENTED HIM. the little figure; and, in answer to the Kingsquestion as to the number of inhabitants of Paris,the figure traced with its pencil the figures 998,-964 (about one third of its present population, bythe way). The King said the new census…
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