Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 469
to lighten the labor ofthe next harvest-time. What is that funny thing for? asked his littleson Cyrus, who stood in the door of the workshopone day looking with wide eyes at the queer, bigmachine his father was making. What are youputting all those sickles on sticks for? Its to cut wheat, my boy,… … CYRUS HALL MCCORMICK The boy liked to see the lively twinkle thatcame into his fathers eyes when he was happyover an idea. It must indeed be jolly to knowhow to make what you wanted, andnothing could be better fun than todiscover new ways of doing things.He, too, would learn the cunning oftools. So…
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