Parakites : a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation (1896)
Woglom, Gilbert Totten · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 28
ason of those fortuitous lacks of coincidency fan^iiliar to fishermen the world over — the great fish he did n't get. Both the wonderful flight and the dismal failure became notorious ; the would-be robbers escaped, but some of their heads escaped from them thereafter. As a future protec- tion,… … DIAGRAM A. dles, seven in number, are indicated by the converging lines. A stout rope on a winch is used when flying the larger sizes ; the winch is anchored by its supports being driven into the ground and lashed as if to tent-pegs. The southerly of the Japanese islands are the homes of…
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