July 16, 1870
Spent the day getting ready to travel to the low countries, Sir
Cosmo informed me that I can't bring sinkable boat mk 3. I have
brought what projects I could the baggage handlers at the docks
were quite upset at me.
July 18, 1870
Lt Wooster is quite the mechanical imbecile, he ask to design
a skeet launcher, ( like I didn't have enough else to do) from
his description I concluded that at small self loading catapult
with a random stop bar, was what he wanted. I was about three
fourths of the way through when Sir Cosmo asked me to please stop
and work on some of the new engine designs for the rocket batteries.
I left the mostly finished catapult on the dining room table and
went back to talking to the engines. About two ours later there
came the most horrendous crash. Fearing an attack by who knows
what we all ran to the dining room. To discover the Lt with a
bemused expression on his face, looking out a hole in the wall
where there used to be a small window, at the remains of the catapult
and the dining room table. He had somehow attached the boom arm
to the table then wound the main up, and removed part of the framework
then attempted to test it with a handy vase. He launched the table
and the machine out through the wall well mostly through the wall
part of the clockwork flew off and buried itself in the opposite
wall inches from where Lt Wooster was standing, the vase was miraculously
left on the floor un-damaged.
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