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countries, and large offers have been made for the right 
to use feather-bone in making whips, corsets, etc., but 
the inventor chooses to reserve his rights. One who 
has never given any attention to the subject scarcely 
comprehends the demand for a substitute for whalebone. 
This commodity is said to be even better for many pur- 
poses than the whalebone which it imitates. 
