The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 29
to make a machine to carry him up. Clergy-men, bishops, popes have been among such ex-perimenters. Wings, fastened to the shouldersand moved by the arms, proved useful only tobreak the owners bones. A certain philosopherseriously suggested that very thin flasks, filledwith morning dew, should be… … THE FLYING -FROG OF JAVA.Sketches from two observers. There are not many reliable records ofobservations on this frog. All, however, agree that the action of thewebbed foot is flight similar to that of a flying-squirrel. with it. But none of these inventors made anyprovision for coming down, and…
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