Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 408
t of the bag to help her,but in the main she was guiding a parachute; then, smiling, said, If you like, I will land ex-actly where I did last year. This they all declared impossible, for thewind was strong in just the opposite direction;but Carlotta insisted that she would land inthat clump of… … A BALLOON-PICNIC AT THE AERONAUTS HOME. and she guided it so skilfully by tipping thefoot-board forward or back, to left or right,that she landed finally in a clump of evergreen-trees, some fifteen miles from Ottawa, that shehad selected as the very place she proposed toland. And great were the…
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