Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400
emortified. Ballooning has taken your wits. Youmight have thought of that for yourself. You look, timorously, straight down. Beneathyou is a river—a slender silver thread, and those dots—can they be houses? Miles and miles awayis the horizon and a hundred things fleck theplain between you and it… … FROM A HEIUIir OF ONE MILE. NOTE THE DRAG ROPE (MARKED BY * ABOVE THEpicture) apparently TOUCHING THE EARTH. 308 HOW IT FEELS TO FLY! [Feb., fear—yes, though you would not admit it—yourfear, and you want to shout and exult and evendance in the feeling of freedom that is yours,and at the truly…
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