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Charles V at his public entry into Nuremberg. But, if this is true, the 

 dove must have survived its inventor for at least twenty years. Then 

 we are told of a monk who attempted a flight with wings from the top 

 of a tower in Spain. He broke his legs, and was afterward burned as 

 a sorcerer. Another similar trial was made from St. Mark's steeple in 

 Venice ; another in Nuremberg ; and so on — legs or arms were usu- 



Fig. 1.— The Fltixg-Man (Retif de la Bretonne's idea). (From an old number of "Scribner'H 



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ally broken, occasionally a neck. In the sixteenth century we read of a 

 certain Italian who went to the court of James IV of Scotland, and 

 attempted to fly from the walls of Stirling Castle to France. His 

 thigh was broken ; but, as a reason for the failure, he asserted that 

 some of the feathers used in constructing his wings were from barn- 

 yard fowls, with a natural aflinity for the dung-hill ; whereas, if com- 



