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"Why," said the boy, "we are prohibited from illuminating our windows with candles, and I'm going to shoot my candles through the air." "Tut, tut, tut," said Mr. Cossart, laughingly; "that's an impossibility." "Robert was known," says one of his biographers, "to purchase small quantities of quicksilver from Dr. Adam Simon Kuhn, druggist, residing opposite the market-house.
Having procured the powder, he left Mr. Fisher's, and entered a small variety store kept by a Mr. Cossart, where he purchased several sheets of large-sized pasteboard. As Mr. Cossart was about to roll them, the boy stopped him, saying he wished to carry them open. Mr. Cossart, knowing Robert's mechanical genius, asked him what he was about to invent.
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