Section 89. A CURIOUS INSTRUMENT. II.
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The children were accordingly[1] all attention, while the father thus[2] proceeded[3]: “This small instrument displays[4] the most[5] perfect ingenuity of[6] construction, and[7] exquisite nicety and beauty of workmanship. From[8] its extreme[9] delicacy[10], however, it[11] is so liable to injury, that it is always protected by a[12] sort of light curtain, adorned[13] with a beautiful fringe, and[14] so placed as to fall in a moment on the approach of the slightest danger. The[15] external appearance of the instrument is always more or less beautiful, though in this respect there[16] is a great diversity in the different sorts. The[17] internal contrivance, however, is the same in all of them, and is so curious, and in its power[18] so astonishing, that no one who knows it[19] can suppress his surprise and admiration.”