PROVED IT.
It was Friday afternoon, and the ! editorial staff were hard at work. Suddenly the pen of the chief subeditor ceased its inky scamper. 1 “I say,” he queried, “is it more correct to refer to a man who goes up in a balloon as an aeronaut or a balloonist ?” “Balloonist,” growled the special i commissioner. i “Call him a balloonatlc,” smirked the storyette editor, with a timid glance at the fighting editor. | “Aeronaut’s the word,” chimed in the aristocrat who compiles personal pars, “and I can prove it,” “You can’t,” chorused the staff in one voice. “I can. You see, it’s this way. When a man goes up in a balloon he goes up into the air.” “Well ?” "‘And, as a matter of fact, he , doesn’t know whether he’ll remain 1 in the air-or-not, does he ?” I When the curtain fell the fighting I editor was furtively reaching for hi# new club.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2283, 5 February 1912, Page 7
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