Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 232
ill hummed under its many-hued canopy, Philip blew another bubble, andcalled the attention of those present to thefact that an old adage said that a bubblewould burst as soon as pricked. But hereis a case, he exclaimed triumphantly, wherethis old adage, like so many others, is provedto be false.… … A SPINNING TOP INCLOSED WITHIN A BUBBLE. great size. Carefully timed by a watch, it a needle through the top of the iridescentlasted just two minutes and a half. sphere without injuring it in the least. Following this, Phil set the humming top to Before the childish exclamations caused by 748 A…
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