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"That's my flutter-wheel, and I feel like breaking it to pieces." "Why?" "Well, you see, all the boys made little water-mills to be run by the force of the stream. We call them 'flutter-wheels. But I made one so curious that it beat them all," he said. "Show it to me, Davie," she said.
And David explained it to her, forgetting all about his unhappiness in the pleasure of showing the little cog-wheels, and the under-shot wheel that drove it. "And why did you want to break it up?" she asked. "Because, mother, Sam Peters said that I should never be good for anything but to make flutter-wheels, and it is true, I am afraid."
It was made to act, by way of experiment, upon oars, upon paddles, and upon flutter-wheels. Nothing in the success of any of these experiments appeared to be sufficient compensation for the expense and the extreme inconvenience of the steam-engine in the vessel.
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