Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 288
ooth-pick in the hands of a sneak-thief. To a Japanese our housesmust appear like veritable prisons with locks, bolts, and auto-matic catches at every opening, — the front door with suchmysterious devices that it is quite as impregnable from withinas from without. What a land of thieves he must… … nnni.^tnninHiiiiig1 |i|i|ni|i|uiimn)iiniiiiuviM. Fig. 233. — Rain-door Lock unbolted. Fig. 234.—Rain-door Lock bolted. house! The simplest device for locking a sliding door, oramado, is by means of a ring fastened to the post by the sideof which the amado comes. In the frame of the amado is alittle…
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