The Flying-Machine
The
Flying-Machine
An Ingenious Man who
had built a flying-machine invited a great concourse of people to see it go
up. At the appointed moment, everything being ready, he boarded the car
and turned on the power. The machine immediately broke through the
massive substructure upon which it was builded, and sank out of sight into the
earth, the aeronaut springing out barely in time to save himself. “Well,” said
he, “I have done enough to demonstrate the correctness of my details. The
defects,” he added, with a look at the ruined brick-work, “are merely basic and
fundamental.” Upon this assurance the people came forward with subscriptions to
build a second machine.
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