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For holding the splinter of mineral, which should well represent the mass and be quite small, is a three-inch length of platinum wire of the thickness of a cambric-needle; this may be bought for about ten cents at the apparatus shop. Sometimes a mineral has to be fused with borax, as I mention further on in my tables.
"If he ain't the spittin' image of an orange with two peanuts underneath and one peanut on top, I never seen one," said Mrs. McDougal in a voice none too low, "and the top peanut ain't got a thing in it. Just listen at his cambric-needle squeak!" "Mr. President." The thin, piping tones caused many to look around. "Mr.
And as he talked in his fine little cambric-needle voice that sounded as if it came out of a squeaky cabinet, I knew he was meaning more than he was saying, and I sat up and listened until he stopped for breath. "Is that all?" I asked, and got up to go in, "for if it is I don't think Miss Susanna need worry herself.
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