Yankee Ingenuity. —A genuine down-easter intends applying for a patent for a machine which, he says, when wound up and set in motion, will chase a hog over a ten acre lot, catch, yoke, and ring him ; or, by a slight change of gearing, it will chop him into sausages, work his bristles into shoe brushes, and manufacture his tail into a corkscrew.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 167, 25 March 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)
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63Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 167, 25 March 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)
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