Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 292
HINT TO PROJECTORS. March, by an extraordinary flight of Americans dropping in the middle of tlie Thames ;for the jacket would make the holder so extremely light, that a young boy who had iton might be thrown up like a feather, to sec which way the wind blew. The use of this gas-spencer might be… … a red jacket inflated with gas, he would, if thrown, fall so very lightly, that brokennecks and dislocated shoulders would become matters of impossibility in the field.
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