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Burton of the Flying Corps 1.0
Burton of the Flying Corps 1.0
Authorize : Freeware

Size : 1.8M

Publisher : ploymeesin

OS Support : Android 2.2.x or higher

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  • USA
Content
The youth, clad in khaki-coloured overalls and a pilot’s cap, made straight for the open door of the shed. There he set his suit-case on the ground, and stepping in, recoiled before the acrid smell that saluted his nostrils. He gave a little cough, but the man stooping over a bench that ran along one of the walls neither looked up, nor in any way signified that he was aware of a visitor. He was a tall, fair man, spectacled, slightly bald, clean shaven, dressed in garments apparently of india rubber. The bench was covered with crucibles, retorts, blow-pipes, test tubes, Bunsen burners, and sundry other pieces of scientific apparatus, and on the shelf above it stood an array of glass bottles and porcelain jars. It was into such a jar that the man was now gazing.
“Hullo, Pickles!” said the newcomer, coughing again. “What a frightful stink!”
The man lifted his head, looked vacantly through his spectacles for a moment, then bent again over the jar, from which he took a small portion of a yellowish substance on the end of a scalpel. Placing this in a glass bowl, he poured on it a little liquid from one of the glass bottles, stirred it with a glass rod, and watched. A smell of ammonia combined with decayed fish mingled with the other odours in the air, causing the visitor to choke again.
“Beautiful!” murmured the experimenter. He then poured some of the solution into another vessel and gazed at it with the rapt vision of an enthusiast.
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