FUNNY STORY OF EDISON.
: A correspondent of a contemporary, in the course of an interesting article on Mr Edison, his method of work, and his discoveries, relates the following atnnsing stpry told ;him by an enthusiastic admirer of the American inventor, and the truth of which several of the latter’s friends attest:—Ganders, as rural folks well know, flog with their wings chib dren who show themselves disposed to interfere with hatching geese. When Edison was a boy i of seven, or eight, and still wearing petticoats, boys’ clothing being thought by his people too dear, it was observed by them at the farm in Michigan where he was brought up that his bare legs were often badly beaten by the gander. One fine morning Edison disappeared. It was i ascertained that he took with him a store of food. As he > was' still missing at night, great uneasiness was felt. A search was begun next day. The child was found in a wood sitting down and holding out his skirts over a sort of straw nest that he had made and filled with eggs which he had taken from under an incubating goose. He wanted to see whether hie could not hatch just as well as that bird. The idea had set him in a fever twelve months previously, and he had not abandoned it. Unphilosophical parents whipped and scolded him. An acquaintance, to whom a Michigan farmer had told this curious anecdote, went to Edison and asked whether it was not fabulous. “Jt is quite true!’ be replied. “I; was terribly disappointed when they pulled me ofi my nest, and had not the courage to try again. But if I went now to hatch those goose’s eggs I should succeed. I have more perseverance.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2773, 11 February 1882, Page 2
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295FUNNY STORY OF EDISON. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2773, 11 February 1882, Page 2
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