Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 381
e ofstiff paper or card for a sail, and you are ready foraction. Put this in the water, with the sail setsquarely across (A, Fig. 1), and she will run offbefore the wind,—which is supposed to be blowingas shown by the arrow,—at a good rate of speed.If she does not steer herself, put a small… … a sail, greatly astonished hisfellow primevals by winningsome prehistoric regatta. But that was all hecould do. He was as helpless as a balloonist is inmid-air. He could go, but he could not get back,and we may be sure that ages passed away beforethe possibility of sailing to windward was…
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