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.