Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 673
y, it will make a soundwhich you can hear distinctly enough yourself,but which will not be audible to any one a fewfeet away. But if you were to fasten the elastic,with a pin at each end, to an empty wooden box,— only not so as to touch ths wood, —and thentwang it, the sound would bemuch louder…
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