Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 67
during the day, it wasonly in the evening that he could go ashore.The law required that all wheelmen shouldcarry a lamp, and Cable, being too poor tobuy one, was barred for a time from enjoyinghis wheel. Instead, however, of sitting downin despair, he went to work and made a lampthat, in spite of… … THE LAMP OF THE CABLE PERFECT. he cut a hole, into which he slipped the oil-cup,made by fitting an old lozenge-bottle into awedge-shaped piece of wood. The hole being 630 A YOUNG INVENTOR. 63I
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