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 subscriptions1 to

　　build a second machine.