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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 266

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READY TO TAKE HOLD OF A GYROSCOPERUNNING AT THE RATE OF 3OOOREVOLUTIONS A MINUTE. surprise of the trainmen, who refused to haveanything further to do with the trunk until Mr.Wood opened it up and removed the gyroscope.At another time, Mr. Wood gave a coloredporter a traveling case containing a… … HE REALLY THINKS HE HAS IT. gyro to carry to his sleeping-car. All went welluntil they came to a corner, when the travelingcase refused to turn, and all the efforts of theporter and the bystanders could not make it turnthe corner. The porter finally dropped it at thefeet of the owner, declaring…

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