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At last I said to him, afther havin' been more than usual exasperated by him, `If you want to foight me, begorrah, ye can begin as soon as you loike, at the same toime showin' him me fists." "Ah, non, non, mon Dieu, non, note yat vay!" sez he, joompin' away from me whin he caught soight o' me fists. "I was mean ze duel and ze rapiere."
The curious craft was towed along the River Seine by a fast motor boat named the Rapiere, and it actually succeeded in rising into the air and flying behind the boat like a gigantic kite. 12th November, 1906, is a red-letter day in the history of aviation, for it was then that Santos Dumont made his first little flight in an aeroplane. This took place at Bagatelle, not far from Paris.
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