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It might picture , for instance , a factory girl at a sewing machine . George Washington would be amazed at a sewing machine . And the girl , journeying in the subway to and from her work ! Stealing an opportunity to telephone her lover at the noon hour ; going to the movies in the evening , or listening to a radio . And there might be a climax , perhaps , with the girl and the villain in a transcontinental railway Pullman , and the hero sending frantic telegrams , or telephoning the train , and then chasing it in his airplane . George Washington would have found it amazing ! And I am wondering how you and I would feel if someone were to give us now a book of ordinary adventure of the sort which will be published a hundred and fifty years hence .