My Birth and Parentage--My Home--The Lessons of Colonel Bernard--Paternal Ambition--My first Mechanical Attempts--Had I but a Rat!--A Prisoner’s Industry--The Abbé Larivière--My Word of Honor--Farewell to my darling Tools......17 A Country Idler--Dr. Carlosbach, Conjurer and Professor of Mystification--The Sand-bag and the Stirrup Trick--I turn Lawyer’s Clerk, and the Minutes appear to me very long--A small Automaton--A respectful Protest--I mount a Step in the Office--A Machine of Porter’s Power--The Acrobatic Canaries--Monsieur Roger’s Remonstrances--My Father decides that I shall follow my bent......26…
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