Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 280
ropelled by means ofpoles. Being extremely fatigued, on one occasion, bypoling this cumbrous craft against the stream, it oc-curred to the boy that, perhaps, paddle-wheels turnedby a crank could be applied to the boat. Soou afterthe experiment was tried with so much success that heand his… … -\ A Gun Shop which was Hauntedby the Boy. 248 Men Who Have Risen At seventeen, his father having died, this precociousyouth established himself in Philadelphia as a miniaturepainter, and returned on his twenty-first birthday to hisearly home, with the means in his pocket of renderinghis mother…
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