Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 106
till, it was a moment ortwo ere he grasped the full meaning of the ac-cident — before he was overwhelmed by theknowledge that he had been snatched awayfrom the earth, and was being rapidly bornetoward the cloud heights — alone ! Then he knew there was neither help nor es-cape. He was in mid-air on… … the balloon somehow wrested itself from its moorings and shot upward, 1.1-AKIM; ALIII 1 THE BAREFOOTEDLITTLE NEWSBOY, SITTING IN THE SWINGING HOOP ! 621 622 AN UNWILLING BALLOONIST. [June, and fainter they grew till, at last, they hadceased altogether. The uplifted faces of thepeople, among whom he…
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