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 417
starts the bird on an-other trip. The Pistol Reporteris a contrivance invented by a friend of theauthor, after he had experimented with theDancing Fisherman described on page 31. The Reporters float is made exactly in the same manneras the Dancing Fishermans, but in the place of the jumping toy,an… … -4-^ ^•gae.Q, relied upon the noise of the exploding cap to notify him thatthere was something on the line. Fig. 259 shows the PistolReporter. Thecommon toy-pistol makesthe best Re-porter, beingsmaller andmore easilyprocured. One moreinvention, andthe reader willhave morethan enough —to occupy…
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