Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 528
o repair it, it was deliveredto him as a tangled mass of fragments ofmetal. For a whole year he worked upon it,and finally was entirely successful — but wassoon after attacked by a brain-fever that causedhim to pass five years almost in idleness. When completely recovered, Houdin set towork again… … THE MAGICIAN AS HOUDIN PRESENTED HIM. his little theater when his father-in-law failed inbusiness. Houdin took to mending watches again, andfor some time was poor; but the invention of aclever alarm-clock that brought out a lightedcandle after ringing the waking-bell, and thesale of several…
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