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 498
tlighted within it. Let it crack as much asever it pleases, your furnace will be none theworse for present purposes, and that is all yourequire. I dare say you have heard of a deardeparted lady, much respected in her time,a Mistress Glass. First catch your hare,wrote Mistress Glass, when about to… … Fig. 3. 5.—THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BALLOON. Now about making your balloon. The first question is what you shall make itof. Large gas-balloons, such as ascend at public exhibitions with aeronaut travellers,are usually made of silk, covered with some sort of elastic varnish, though thematerial of…
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