What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 388
rimenting with moving objectsthat prompts us to throw stones for the pur-pose of seeing them skip over the surface ofthe water, and to this instinct must be at-tributed the pleasure experienced by theschool-boy with his Potato Mill, The Potato Mill. which consists of simply a stick, a potato, a… … 360 IVinfeK large hole bored through the middle, and a small hole boredthrough one side, to the middle hole ; the string from the stickpasses through the hole in the side of the buckeye ; the endof the stick is sharpened and thrust into a potato. If the string be wound around the stick, and the…
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