Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 504
sted this vacationwas a telegraph-line rigged up between my house and mychums, which is three doors away. My instrument was given me by a neighbor. My chum,whose name is Earle, was loaned an instrument by thesame neighbor. Luckily, we had enough money saved up to buy the wireand the insulators. We… … (GOLD BADGE.) work and studied the Morse code. We made slow workof it, but gradually got it into our heads. Then we made up certain signals of our own. At firstwe got on very slowly. We had made a rule that the onewho was sending should wait after every letter until theother had made a dot to show…
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