as he set the pumps to work drawing

uoyancy thus diminish

u going to d

gling farmer was within a few feet of the ground now and even if he did kick hims

Jack, "and then play out rope till we lower h

ng directly over the haystack. Jack turned and nodded. Tom sprang to the rope and lowered the indignant farmer into the soft hay. The

bustin' down my barn. I'll see whether such goin's on is allowed in ther

although they feared serious consequences might come of the accident, was wingi

e Jack noticed a peculiar

farmer might have hit the gas bag above them with his double shots, al

de a less steady boy dizzy and sick to stand on the edge of the Wondership, clinging to one of the supports that held the body of the craft to the gas-ba

hole in the underbody of the balloon, from which gas was ru

which, in turn, ignites the gas itself, sometimes with fatal results. Experts in a?ronautics attrib

" he said. "That old fellow succeede

the roadside, landing on the running wheels as lightly as a feather, thanks to the shoc

r kit," said Jack,

dy for the job of patching up the hole. But first they had to empty the big bag of gas. This was spe

he placed inside the hole, spreading it out so that when pressure was applied it would be pressed firmly against th

of silence in the air. Far on the horizon they could make out great billowy masses of

Jack. "We shall have a

off his cap and mopping his forehead. "I'd hate to

on the ground as if he was very tired. The gray dust of the road c

a kind of headgear seldom seen in the east and attracted the boys' attention. Round the man's neck was a red handke

" hazar

hook h

t to me somehow," he s

ver, a young man, had his head turned and was talking to three companions

set up

'll run him do

ayfarer, and before the boys' horrified eyes he was thrown high in