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I wish not to raise high expectations, but I think I shall succeed tolerably well." About this time Finley Morse and his brother Edwards had jointly devised and patented a new "flexible piston-pump," from which they hoped great things. Edwards, always more or less of a wag, proposed to call it "Morse's Patent Metallic Double-headed Ocean-Drinker and Deluge-Spouter Valve Pump-Boxes."
So he tried his hand at invention, and, in conjunction with his brother Sidney, produced what was playfully described as 'Morse's Patent Metallic Double-Headed Ocean-Drinker and Deluge-Spouter Pump-Box. The pump was quite as much admired as the 'Jupiter, and it proved as great a failure. Succeeding as a portrait painter, he went, in 1818, on the invitation of his uncle, Dr.