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...weigh 150 pounds and desire to have fun, you should strap to your back a balloon lifting 100 pounds. Then you are ready to indulge in the sport of balloon jumping...
Walk along the ground with a breeze at your back, approach a fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
That young Charles Rumford Walker would always want to write seemed likely when, aged 10, in Concord, N. H., he put his money, earned by raking leaves, into a hand printing press and began publishing a weekly newspaper in his attic. He was "romantically mechanical"; built a balloon that burned up on its first trip...
Twenty-four hours later, the Goodyear balloon containing Pilot Ward T. Van Orman and his assistant, W. W. Morton, descended on the beach near Bar Harbor, Me. (715 miles from Akron). It had floated a greater distance than any of the other 14-thereby winning the National Elimination Balloon Race and the right to represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Trophy (international) race in the autumn. Second and third places went to the Detroit Flying Club entry and the Army No. 3 balloon from Scott Field, Ill., who respectively floated to Skowhegan, Me. (665 miles) and Biddeford...
...large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo, indicate the rough-and-tumble, hardbitten, gun-toting memoir on saddle-leather that this book...