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"Oh, Daddy!" she cried, "is there going to be another earthquake?" "Look there!" Drew said pointing upward. Over the summit of the whale's hump hung a balloon of smoke, or of steam, its underside of a lurid hue. "I say I've had enough for one day," declared the master of the Bertha Hamilton. "Let's get back to the schooner before anything else occurs. Maybe a night's sleep will put heart in us.
At length, however, the internal-combustion engine, such as is used in motor-cars, arrived, and it became at last possible to solve the great problem of constructing a really-serviceable, steerable balloon. In Berlin, on March 8, 1917, there passed away a man whose name will be remembered as long as the English language is spoken.
In this, however, I was disappointed, for, reaching an altitude of twelve hundred feet, a counter-current struck the balloon, causing it to sway violently and jerking the torn portion to and fro until it ripped six feet farther around the seam. The balloon continued to rise until it had attained an elevation of thirty-five hundred feet, the gas meanwhile pouring in volumes from the hole.
The balloon is made of long strips of silk, sewn together, and rendered air-tight by means of a coating of caoutchouc. A valve is fitted to the top, and by means of it the aeronaut can descend to the earth at will, by allowing some quantity of the gas to escape. The car in which he sits is suspended to the balloon by a network, which covers the whole structure.
"Oh, Freddie!" she half sobbed, "what you s'pose's goin' to happen to us?" "I don't know," he answered. "But anyhow we're up in a balloon and we're having a fine sail. I like a balloon, don't you, Flossie?" Flossie thought it over for a moment. Now that the first fright was passed she rather enjoyed the quiet, easy motion.
I'll never be a credit to anybody; and as for what I'm going to do go back to Greenville and loaf in Tim's pool-room, I suppose, and watch Hector's balloon." However, Hector's balloon seemed uninclined to soar, at the set-off though Hector didn't.
"Art, progress all that is alchemy?" "You see, Volodya, it seems to me that if all you thinking people had set yourselves to solving great problems, all these little questions that you fuss about now would solve themselves by the way. If you go up in a balloon to see a town, you will incidentally, without any effort, see the fields and the villages and the rivers as well.
And if he had been carried off, there would have been a fuss, and the ballooners would have been tackled at once in fact, I can't think why they weren't. I think it looks rather bad for Grizzel's diamond; worse for the diamond than for the man. I wonder how fast the balloon was going. How fast does a balloon fly?"
In a few minutes, a balloon, previously prepared at this floating Temple of Commerce, and adorned with the flags of different nations, ascended thence with majestic slowness, and presently took an almost horizontal direction to the south-west.
And yet at times it is almost the curse of my life. They asked me if I would go upstairs in the lift, from force of habit I risked it, and I held my breath all the way and clenched my hands. Nothing will induce me to try such a journey again. I would sooner go up to my room in a balloon. And why?
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