A Balloon Ascension at Midnight

By George Eli Hall

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 4, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547216780

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George Eli Hall

A Balloon Ascension at Midnight

EAN 8596547216780

DigiCat, 2022

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WE HAD agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house, after dinner, not later than eleven o’clock.

This athletic young Frenchman belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up ballooning as a pastime.

After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found in ordinary sports, even those of automobiling at a breakneck speed, the members of the Aéro Club now seek in the air, where they indulge in all kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to find on earth.

I might add that these facts were but vaguely known to me before I had been introduced, by a mutual friend, to this nouveau siècle young sportsman, and had accepted his invitation to accompany him in his next aerial voyage.

When we reached the vacant lot at the huge gas works of St. Denis, where