Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 233
. By the time all is over, the tiny light of thesolitary ball in the balloon looks like a star in thesky above, traveling where the wind has a mind to blow it. For the most experienced aeronaut has butvery little more command over the actions of hisimmense silken air-ship than has the young… … SOME miles from the companys trading-post wasa four-sided cut in the ground. It was thirty feetlong, by twenty broad. In depth it was overtwelve feet, and its sides were perpendicular. Ithad been an elephant pit when elephants wereplenty and the ivory trade brisk in the district. At the time I…
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