 | University of Sydney - 1904 - 680 pages
...went again into the water, where I found, that lying on my back, and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very agreeable manner. Having then engaged a boy to carry my clothes round the pond, to a place which I pointed out to him, on the other side,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - United States - 1905 - 422 pages
...went again into the water, where I found that, lying on my back and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very...Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes around the pond, to a place which I pointed out to him on the other side, I began to cross the pond... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...went again into the water, where I found that, lying on my back and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very...boy to carry my clothes round the pond to a place I pointed out to him on the other side, I began to cross the pond with my kite, which carried me quite... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1918 - 708 pages
...it, went again into the water where I found that, lying on my back and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very...Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes around the pond to a place which I pointed out to him on the other side, I began to cross the pond... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - Anecdotes - 1918 - 712 pages
...it, went again into the water where I found that, lying on my back and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very...Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes around the pond to a place which I pointed out to him on the other side, I began to cross the pond... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Electronic journals - 1925 - 370 pages
...in which Franklin states that when he was a boy he amused himself one day by flying a paper kite : " I found that lying on my back and holding the stick...the surface of the water in a very agreeable manner. * * * I have never since that time practiced this singular mode of swimming tho I think it not impossible... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...useful. Sending one aloft, he stripped, waded into a pond, floated on his back, and let it pull him. "Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes round the pond," he recalled, "I began to cross the pond with my kite, which carried me quite over without the least... | |
 | 1793 - 648 pages
...where I found that lying on my back and holding the ftick in my hands, I was drawn along the furface of the water in a very agreeable manner. Having then...to a place which I pointed out to him on the other fide, I began to crofs the pond with my kite, which carried me quite over without the leaft fatigue,... | |
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I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very agreeable manner. Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes round the pond... 
