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Updated: May 14, 2025
In another portion of this autobiography I have uttered a prayer for the revival of soul-kindling eloquence in the pulpit. In this age of dizzy ballooning in finance and social extravagance, my prayer is: "Oh, for the revival of old fashioned, sturdy, courageous frugality that 'hath clean hands and a clean heart, and hath not lifted up its soul to vanity!"
That he himself was not dashed to death was a miracle. But to him this was no more than a bit unusual incident of the day's work. Lyons, MacKeever, and myself were novices in ballooning, but the two others had scored their bit of aeronautic experience.
I am your fellow-countryman; you will learn something in my company, and my conversation will indemnify you for the trouble I have given you." I sat down, without replying, at the opposite extremity of the car. The young man had taken a voluminous manuscript from his great-coat. It was an essay on ballooning.
The only difference is that remote and unsophisticated communities are more constant to a style they once adopt. There are isolated peasant communities in Europe who have kept for centuries the most uncouth and inconvenient attire, while we have run through a dozen variations in the art of attraction by dress, from the most puffed and bulbous ballooning to the extreme of limpness and lankness.
"I say, Sam," cried Yates, "can't you do something better for us than the fifth floor? I didn't come to Buffalo to engage in ballooning. No sky parlors for me, if I can help it." "I'm sorry, Dick," said the clerk; "but I expect the fifth floor will be gone when the Chicago express gets in." "Well, what can you do for us, anyhow?" "I can let you have 518. That's the next room to yours.
This is another!" and she sprang up the high turf bank of the orchard of La Tour and danced a breakdown on it, and then jumped back into the road with ballooning skirts, to the intense amazement of old Mrs. Hamon of Le Fort, who had just come round the corner to draw sweet water from the La Tour well. "People will think you're crazy," remonstrated Margaret.
Gas-bag, netting, concentrating-ring, basket, valve, anchor, drag-rope and exploding cord, what has the century of ballooning added to its essentials? how can coming centuries improve this perfection of simplicity? Aërial navigation is altogether another thing.
"She'll carry away like like a kite when it hits us," he declared. Several more pairs of eyes were turned helplessly upward. Suddenly Buck swung round upon the doorway. "Here she comes," he cried. "Holy !" With a rush and a deafening roar the wind hit the building and set it rocking. Buck and Pete flung themselves with arms outspread against the ballooning blanket, and it held.
He was always ready to smile and turn a little joke, whether speeding in his automobile at a breakneck pace or ballooning above the clouds in search of what was to him the breath of life: "ze sensation." He could never see a new form of "ze sensation" without running for it like a child for a new toy. His whole attitude towards the world was that of a furious curiosity.
He drew off a glove and pushed his hat back, using a pocket handkerchief to brush the dust from his face and running the fingers of the hand through his hair thereby producing another ballooning dust cloud which splayed heavily downward. "What's botherin' me is that shootin'," he went on, still speaking to the black horse. "We sure enough heard it didn't we?"
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