Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400
friend pays itout. What is that for? he asks. Guide or dragrope, says the pilot; keeps us steady and, whenit touches the ground, acts as a spring buffer toa too sudden drop, by lightening the balloon ofthe weight of the rope on the ground. Helps usto keep a constant low level, in seeking a… … A PICTUKli TAKEN HALF A MILE ABOVE THE EARTH. SO—it might break something. Drop seventypounds three hundred feet and then halt it sud-denly and something would happen! You aremortified. Ballooning has taken your wits. Youmight have thought of that for yourself. You look, timorously, straight down.…
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