Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 67
And as the cat waxed wrathier and yowled and growled and spat,That little boy a record made of sputterings of the cat.A record for a phonograph, which reproduced, forsooth,The cats remarks verbatim, and set them down in truth. … 614 APPLIED SCIENCE 615 What s this? his parents murmured, when they heard the record played;That, remarked Thomas Tesla Green, is something I have made,To put out in the pantry. You 11 find it very nice To keep away the nightly raids of depredating mice. •
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