Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 515
re Dyer wasactually flying a kite, and just as the other boyswere wondering at this unusual performance,something was seen to shoot up the kite-stringfor a few feet and swiftly descend again. Whatthis something was could not be made out fromthe broad piazza, beyond the fact that it car-ried a sail;… … Early next morning Will was kite-flying again,and those boys fortunate enough to be abouthad the pleasure of seeing a beautiful littleyacht sail up the kite-string, the whole lengthof it, and then lower its sails, and return to itsowner again. Six weeks later the notice mentioned at thebeginning of…
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