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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 101

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tty hard at times. I wonder how they came to think of puttingin an engine. Quite naturally, I should judge. You see, asI said, they had a bicycle store. A bicycle is runby the feet, so is a glider; it runs in about thesame style as a bicycle coasting. You start itwith your feet and then let it go… … THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AT THEIR HOME.Taken this summer especially for this article. The old man laughed, and continued:It s my philosophy that the flying-machineabout the same—a glider with an engine inand a propeller at the rear so you can go up ioio.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 77 well as…

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