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FLOOR GAMES

it is merely the outer semblance that is injured—the funnel bent, the body twisted. You remove the things and, behold! you have bare clock-work on wheels, an apparatus of almost malignant energy, soul without body, a kind of metallic rage. This it was that our junior member instantly knew for a 'lectric, and loved from the moment of its stripping.

(I have, by the by, known a very serviceable little road 'lectric made out of a clock-work mouse.)

Well, when we have got

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