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We have just received an entry from Andy Foger." "From Andy Foger!" gasped Tom. "Is he going to try to win some of the prizes?" "He's entered for the big one, the ten-thousand-dollar prize," replied the balloonist. "He has made formal application to be allowed to compete, and we have to accept any one who applies. Why, do you object to him, Tom?" "Object to him? Mr.
And one may be sure that the terrible reality of the disaster that had happened was not lost on the young schoolboy. But his wish was to become an aeronauts, and from this desire nothing deterred him, so that school days were scarcely over before he began to accompany his father aloft, and in a very few years, i.e. in 1888, he had assumed the full responsibilities of a professional balloonist.
In these circumstances, the careful balloonist, who will generally be forewarned by the ruffle on any water he may pass, or by the drift of smoke, the tossing of trees, or by their very rustling or "singing" wafted upwards to him, will, if possible, seek for his landing place the lee of a wood or some other sheltered spot.
She drew from her muff a copy of our last week's issue, with my article on hydrogen gas scored in pencil, and flung it before his eyes. Our chief took it and read it through. "He was 'Balloonist'?" queried the chief. "He was 'Balloonist," admitted the lady, "the poor innocent child, and now look at him!" "Maybe it'll grow again," suggested our chief.
"Slow her down, Ned!" cried Tom, for the ARROW was shooting so swiftly through the water that the young inventor found it impossible to pull up the balloonist. Ned hurried back to the motor, and, when the boat's way had been checked, it was an easy matter to pull the dripping and almost exhausted man into the craft. "Are you much hurt?" asked Mr.
Blanchard's companion on the first Channel crossing by balloon, Dr Jeffries, was the first balloonist to ascend for purely scientific purposes; as early as 1784 he made an ascent to a height of 9,000 feet, and observed a fall in temperature of from degrees at the level of London, where he began his ascent to 29 degrees at the maximum height reached.
Tom received a handsome silver cup and Miss Nestor a gold bracelet. "Now I want all the contestants, winners and losers, to come up to my house and have lunch," invited Mr. Hastings. As Tom and the balloonist strolled up the walk to the handsome house Andy Foger passed them. "You wouldn't have beaten me if my spark coil hadn't gone back on me," he said, somewhat sneeringly.
I'll never do it again! Please, please let me down! Don't You'll tip me over!" He had shut off his motor now, and was frantically clinging to the steering wheel. "Do you admit that you're a sneak and a coward?" asked Tom, "rubbing it in." "Yes, yes! Oh, please let me down!" "Shall we?" asked Tom of Mr. Sharp. "Yes," replied the balloonist.
When the boy tried to arrange for an ascension the balloonist he consulted put so unconscionable a price on one ascent that he bought an automobile instead one of the first made, for this was in 1891 and with it returned to Brazil.
Whether it was her natural hatred for mankind that tempted the savage beast to attack the balloonist, or the scent of fresh blood from some of his scratches, it would be hard to say, possibly both reasons had to do with her action.
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