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They all looked at Barbicane. "However," resumed the president, "I hold to that quantity of powder. Think! 1,600,000 pounds of powder will give 6,000,000,000 litres of gas." "Then how is it to be done?" asked the general. "It is very simple. We must reduce this enormous quantity of powder, keeping at the same time its mechanical power." "Good! By what means?"
"I gave a bound like a rabbit, and then I reflected that a woman ought not to measure more than three hundred litres. So I said: 'That's too dear. "He answered: 'I cannot do it for less. I should lose by it. "You understand, one is not a dealer in hogs for nothing. One understands one's business. But, if he is smart, the seller of bacon, I am smarter, seeing that I sell them also. Ha, Ha, Ha!
I wish I could couple them with equally heroic achievements in the drinking line, but, alas! I have only heard of one old man who was wont habitually to en-gulph twenty-two litres of wine a day; eight are spoken of as "almost too much" in these degenerate days. . . . Mice, says Movers, were sacrificially eaten by the Babylonians.
I pointed to my store of provisions from Castrovillari. His eye wandered lovingly over the pile and reposed, finally, upon sundry odd bottles and a capacious demijohn, holding twelve litres. "Wine of family," I urged. "None of your eating-house stuff." He thought he could manage it, after all. Yes; the trip could be undertaken, with a little sacrifice.
Its keeper was standing behind his counter turning wine out of a large jug into some litres, and did not seem much astonished at seeing his new visitors. "Aren't there six or eight men waiting for somebody here?" he asked. "Yes, they came about an hour ago." "Are they in the big back room?" "Just so, Monsieur," responded the wine merchant, obsequiously.
It was decided 1, that the projectile should be an obus of aluminium, with a diameter of 800 inches; its sides were to be 12 inches thick, and it was to weigh 19,250 lbs.; 2, that the cannon should be a cast-iron Columbiad 900 feet long, and should be cast at once in the ground; 3, that the charge should consist of 400,000 lbs. of gun-cotton, which, by developing 6,000,000,000 litres of gas under the projectile, would carry it easily towards the Queen of Night.
Indeed, each prize had to be floated on a few litres of the Turin specialty, and I began to think that perhaps it would have been better, after all, not to have given my circus friend the ticket, if he were to draw drink with it. Many prizes were called out, and at last only two numbers remained.
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