WHEN THE BALLOON WENT UP

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2786, 27 September 1910, Page 2

WHEN THE BALLOON WENT UP

I On n cirrus day in H some time i uko as the balloon was about to go, ! the throng of country folk was great, | and excitement ran high, j "A beautiful young lady"—so the i bills had announced—was to make th* I ascension. The crowds grew some what impatient during the inflation of the balloon, but at last all wan ready. The damsel appeared, kissed her hand to the audience in the most conventional circus ring fashion, and gracefully mounted the trapeze. The balloon was then unloosed, and shot upwards with great velocity. The rvidrpt hji/ard of the aeronaut caused :• i■ 11<• 1.11 a|.j>ri hnisi'in. Nervous ladies ■•nused t. s.f.'its became hysteri«a!, an ! Imiii t besc groans and ex-e':un-v ■■■•' «•<■. <tant!y heard. In ;v. -n\ :?ii ;.pinriiC'. lace v,'ere depicted : . -s ;>n i auxin! of unsophisticated . ii.» As t r -.alioon faded away in the zenith, an old ladj, mistaken somewhat as to the balloon's ultimate destination, at last broke the oppressive silence, exclaiming, consolingly : "Poor thing ! It's awful to go that way, but I guess we ought not to grieve for her. No doubt she is far better off than she ever was In this wicked world."—"Harper's Magazine."