Down the long sweep of the Grand Canal came the gondola, a slender vessel reminiscent of older, statelier times. But there was something that looked like a propeller shaft projecting from the craft's bottom; the gondolier had abandoned his classic, nonchalant stand at the stern to crouch at the center; and the boat emitted wild gusts of fumes and roars that shook the lagoon city into outrage.
Outrage is exactly what the strange craft was intended to provoke. The stunt of putting an outboard motor in a gondola was perpetrated by Gino...
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