The Flying-Machine故事

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The Flying-Machine故事
    AN Ingenious Man who had built a flying-machine invited a great
    concourse of people to see it go up.  At the appointed moment,
    everything being ready, he boarded the car and turned on the power.  
    The machine immediately broke through the massive substructure upon
    which it was builded, and sank out of sight into the earth, the
    aeronaut springing out barely in time to save himself.
    "Well," said he, "I have done enough to demonstrate the correctness
    of my details.  The defects," he added, with a look at the ruined
    brick-work, "are merely basic and fundamental."
    Upon this assurance the people came forward with subscriptions to
    build a second machine.