Excerpt from The Boy Engineers: What They Did and How They Did It; A Book for Boys
It is perhaps of no great importance to the reader to know how the outline of the following narrative came into my possession. Perhaps the surgeon who is spoken of in the introductory chapter placed it in my hands, and perhaps he did not; but it was in any case lawfully my own, to do with as I pleased; and I therefore put it into book form for the benefit of my old friends, The Boys. In doing so, I found it necessary to add considerably to it, and so to modify it that, while relating what the Boy Engineers said and did, I might from personal knowledge of the mechanical arts assist the youngsters in their work.
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