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I arrived at Domodossola in the afternoon in a blaze of sunshine, and I was reminded here of a charming comedy by an author whose name I have forgotten, which I had once seen performed with a refinement worthy of Platen, and to which my attention had been drawn by Eduard Devrient in Dresden.
Do you mean to tell the men what to do, and to have real tools to work with?" Count Platen smiled. "Yes, to have entire charge of a part of the work. That's what I mean. I really think you could do it. How old are you, John?" "I'll be fourteen very soon." "Hm," mused the Count, "It seems absurd to put a boy of fourteen in charge of six hundred soldiers.
This stronghold, situated on the northeast of the Platen Sea, was, like Caniza and Oberlympack, one of the Turkish advanced posts, by means of which they pushed forward their operations from Buda on the Danube. This noble friend of Smith, the Duke of Mercury, whom Haylyn styles Duke Mercurio, seems to have puzzled the biographers of Smith.
I licked the stuffing out of him!" "O shut up!" said May contemptuously; "or I'll lick the stuffing out of you." Bobby, practically oblivious to the meaning of this exchange, had stripped off his gloves and had advanced, eager to finish his explanation. "Johnny, I just thought!" said he. "You remember those two thumb screws under the platen?
His Cossacks, under their Demikows, Romanzows; capable of no good fighting, but of endless incendiary mischief in the neighborhood; shoot far ahead into Prussian territory: Platen, Hordt with his Free-Corps, are beautifully sharp upon them; but many beatings avail little. Not to be checked by Platen's best diligence; not, in the end, by Platen and Dohna together.
And yet if he has the skill to do the work, why not? And there's small doubt that he has. Well, John, I'll see what can be done. Meet me here to-morrow morning." The next day Count Platen found John anxiously awaiting him.
Count Platen looked at the drawing on the boy's lap, and listened intently while the young inventor explained how the machine should work. He was astounded at the knowledge the boy had of engineering. "You're Olof Ericsson's son, aren't you?" he asked finally. The boy nodded. "Yes, I'm John Ericsson; I've an older brother Nils, who's fifteen." "Is Nils as much of an engineer as you are?"
The Bashaw of Buda was soon to feel the effect of this re-enforcement. Caniza is a town in Lower Hungary, north of the River Drave, and just west of the Platen Sea, or Lake Balatin, as it is also called. In this strong town the Turks had shut up the garrison under command of Governor Ebersbraught so closely that it was without intelligence or hope of succor.
His best-beloved mistress remained still at Hanover, which was the beautiful Countess of Platen. "Perhaps it will be thought a digression in this place to tell the story of his amour with her; but, as I write only for myself, I shall always think I am at liberty to make what digressions I think fit, proper or improper; besides that in my opinion can set the King's character in a clearer light.
But in the case of Morris's penny the type did not conform to the paper and the pressure, the paper conformed to the type. His brain afire with eagerness, Bobby first stretched several clean sheets of paper over the platen and clamped them down; then he inked the type and pressed down the lever. Thus he gained an impression on the platen itself. At this point he hesitated.
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