Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 664
AT YE SIGN OF YE APPLE-BOUGH INN. MOTHER NATURE AND THE JOINTED STICK, By Dan Beard. … |HEN you build a kite,you first make a skele-ton of sticks, then coverthe skeleton with a skinof paper. When youbuild a boat, you firstmake a backbone calledthe keel, then add ribsand cover this framewith a wooden skin ; but neither the kite nor theboat has life or intelligence of its own,—bothare…
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