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It having been found a useful instrument, the credit of contriving it has been impugned, by liking it to the Roman Abacus and Chinese Swanpan; but were those instruments like in structure, or designed especially to teach the multiplication table? if not, they are no more similar than "a hawk to a hand-saw."
The negro was not slow to understand, with a broad grin, touching his pocket, from which projected the dull end of a hand-saw. I wonder what sudden pain made the negro rise just then, and come close to his master, touching him with a strange affection and remorse in his tired face, as though he had done him some deadly wrong. "What is it, old fellow?" said Lamar, in his boyish way. "Homesick, eh?
You know a hawk from a hand-saw, any how and be my sowl, kind father, for you whish! I'm rantin' Regan from sweet Anghadarra!" So saying, poor, idle, drinking, negligent, pugnacious Regan, by his own sheer neglect, put his property into the hands of the most relentless harpy that ever robbed and fleeced a tenantry.
"No, I can't find the right alloy not one that can be relied upon. I begin to doubt whether it exists." "Why don't you give it up for a while at any rate?" "I have. I made a novel kind of electrical hand-saw this spring, and sold the patent for 100 pounds and a royalty. There's commercial success for you, and now I am at work on a new lamp of which I have the idea."
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