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and — experiments = and to make various troublesome experiments.

+Verfahren+, n.

after all not, +doch nicht+, which must not be placed between commas. Comp. S. 15, N. 3.

+gelingen.+

thing = object.

=I wonder=, +es wundert mich+; we wonder, +es wundert uns+; you wonder, +es wundert Sie+.

that — one = that not everybody, who can at all (+irgend+) make it possible, possesses the same (to agree with ‘object’).

Section 91.

A CURIOUS INSTRUMENT.

IV.

FATHER. “These instruments are not so uncommon as you suppose; I myself happen to know several individuals who are possessed of one or two of them.”

CHARLES. “How large are they, father? Could I hold one in my hand?”

FATHER. “You might; but I should be very sorry to trust mine to you.”

GEORGE. “You must take very great care of it, then?”

FATHER. “Indeed I must. I intend every night to envelop it in the light curtain I mentioned; it must, besides, occasionally be washed in a certain colourless liquid kept for the purpose; but this is such a delicate operation, that persons, I find, are generally reluctant to perform it. But notwithstanding the tenderness of this instrument, you will be surprised to hear that it may be darted to a great distance, without suffering the least injury, and without any danger of losing it.”

individuals = persons.

who — one = who possess one.

of them = of the same.

+Das könntest du wohl.+

but — sorry = but I should be very unwilling.

to trust anything to a person, +einem etwas an´vertrauen+.

to take great care of a thing, +etwas sehr inacht nehmen+.

then = thus, +also+, which place after the object.

+Gewiß muß ich das!+

+umhül´len+.

in — mentioned = with the above-mentioned light curtain.

in = with.

+die man sich zu diesem Zwecke hält.+