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So the airship could be made either heavier or lighter than air, and losses of weight through the consumption of fuel, the casting of bombs and so forth, could also be compensated by admitting air to sections of the general gas-bag. Ultimately that made a highly explosive mixture; but in all these matters risks must be taken and guarded against.
Joe urged on the car, which responded gallantly, swaying from side to side, while the gas-bag bellied and shook; but the faster it went the faster the sheep-dog flew in front of it. "This is dreadful!" said Mr. Lavender in anguish, leaning far out. "Blink! Blink!" His cries were drowned in the roar of the car.
But Stener had sunk in on himself like an empty gas-bag, and no efforts were sufficient to inflate him. They went out, finally, defeated. "I tell you, Frank," said Steger, "I wouldn't worry. We can tie this thing up legally until election and after, and that will give all this row a chance to die down. Then you can get your people together and talk sense to them.
"Don't listen to her, 'Liza!" cried Jessie, her small mouth twitching with laughter. "What were you going to say?" "Well, if that young gas-bag would shut up for half a minit, I'd tell you something pretty queer about the minister. But, mind you, it's a dead secret, and you must promise "
And then began a terrible struggle. The pressure of the wind bore us down within a hundred feet of the ragged rocks. Groaning under the strain, the rope seemed ready to snap. Like a huge leviathan trapped in a net, the gas-bag writhed, twisted, bulged, shrank, gathered into a ball and sprang fiercely out.
But this was overcome when Tom started up a dynamo, and brought out a portable search-light which was played upon the superstructure of the RED CLOUD. The gas-bag was the only part of the craft they feared for, as the hailstones could not damage the iron or wooden structure and the planes were made in sections, and in such a manner that rents in them could easily be repaired.
"After all," he said, "it is very beautiful!" "It is singularly and strangely beautiful!" said the Professor. "I wish the beastly gas-bag would burst!" "No," said Dr. Bull, "I hope it won't. It might hurt the old boy." "Hurt him!" said the vindictive Professor, "hurt him! Not as much as I'd hurt him if I could get up with him. Little Snowdrop!" "I don't want him hurt, somehow," said Dr. Bull.
The platform of the flying ship on which he stood hung in dock at least three hundred feet high above the roads beneath. He had examined the whole vessel just now from stem to stern, and had found it vaguely familiar; he determined to examine it again presently. There was no gas-bag to sustain it so much he had noticed though he could not say whence he had the idea that gas-bags were usual.
The adventurers followed Tom from the airship, and all but the young inventor gazed curiously at the interior of the cave. His first thought was for his airship. He glanced up at the gas-bag, and noted several bad rents in it. "I hope we can fix them," Tom thought dubiously. But the attention of all was suddenly arrested by something that occurred just then.
But what faces these young folks make up at my good advice! They get tipsy on their rhymes. Nothing intoxicates one like his or her own verses, and they hold on to their metre-ballad-mongering as the fellows that inhale nitrous oxide hold on to the gas-bag." We laughed over this essay of the old Professor; though it hit us pretty hard.
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