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Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s most famous invention was the steam-ham-mer, by means of which large masses of iron can be forgedwith the greatest ease. It is a very heavy machine, of im-mense power, and yet so delicately made that the work-man, by means of a lever, can direct its operations withthe utmost nicety. The great steam-hammer at Wool-wich Arsenal, in England, can be made to give so gentlea blow as to crack the end of an egg placed in a wine-glass on the anvil, while the next blow may be givenwith such force as to be felt two miles away. The origi-nal drawings for this wonderful contrivance were madeli\ Nasmyth in about half an hour. RAISING THE PEARL.* BY JAMES OTIS, ArTimr. OF ToBY TYLEB, Tni AMI Tir, Mis. STI-IIHSS BROTHER,ETC. CHAPTER IX. A DISCOURAGED PIRATE. THANKS to the early hour at which the young wreck-ers went to bed, they were up almost as soon as thesun was on the day when the success or failure of theirplan for raising the 1itirl was to be decided. * Begun in No. 175, HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE.
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THE BOYS DISCOVER THE PIRATE. 406 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. The rafts floated securely where they had been anchor-ed on the previous night, and as the boys looked at theirstout frames, which would offer so much resistance to any•weight that might be put upon them, it was easy to believethat when they were made fast to the steamer the actionof the tide would lift the Pearl very readily. They had three hours at their disposal before the waterwould be low enough to admit of their beginning work,and this time was to be employed in releasing Tommyfrom his imprisonment. Breakfast was hurriedly eaten, and without any fearthat their belongings in the tent would be disturbed, evenif any one from the town should come to pay them avisit, they started for Dollar Island and the pirate. The pull over was not as hard as when they had rowedCaptain Sammy, for the boat they were then in was notas large as the one Tommy had wrecked, and besides itwas earlier in the day, and consequently much co

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