Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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Now, some months had passed, after the successful trial of the big weapon, and Tom longed for new activities. He found them in the idea of a photo telephone, and he and his father were just talking of this when interrupted by the accident to the birdman on the roof of the Swift home. "Have you got that ladder, Rad?" cried the young inventor, anxiously, as he saw the dangerous position of the man from the airship. "Yas, sah, Massa Tom! I'se a-camin' wif it!" "And where's Koku? We'll need him!" "He's a-camin', too!" "Here Koku!" exclaimed a deep voice, and a big man came running around the corner of the house. "What is it, Master?" "We must get him down, Koku!" said Tom, simply. "I will go up on the roof. You had better come, too. Rad, go in the house and get a mattress from the bed. Put it down on the ground where he's likely to fall. Lively now!" "Yas, sah, Massa Tom!" "Me git my own ladder--dat one not strong 'nuff!" grunted Koku, who did not speak very good English. He had a very strong ladder, of his own make, built to hold his enormous bulk, and this he soon |
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