The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 488
d yield abundant smoke.Chopped straw, slightly damped and mixed with wool, was one of the favouredcombustibles. Fire, or Montgolfier balloons, large enough to take up sky travellers, are nolonger used; air-balloons, or, as it would be more proper to call them, gas-balloons,being more convenient and… … 2. FIRE-BALLOONS AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION. They may be constructed of any size ; but an overgrown fire-balloon, accordingto my experience, is seldom satisfactory, and never returns value for the moneyexpended in making it. As a boy I was a great fire-balloon maker. I have madethem of various sizes ;…
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