hose on it trying to find some means of escape. They rushed about, pushing and shoving, endeavor

it. It had resumed a level keel, but the wind and its momentum were urging it forward

l we do?"

!" shouted Jerry. "It m

said Ned in a low voice to Je

ossed uprights of the platform, getting their hands and clothes full of splinters,

platform at a point below the flooring on which the most of the throng still stood or crouched. Coming on as i

ifted and blew at right angles to the course of the plane, and, catching u

e tower and platform one of the edges of the big box-k

e're safe!" cr

e danger," admitted Jerry. "

re," ech

d calmed down. They looked for the aeropl

good landing, any

bserved Ned. "My, but that was a close shave! After

nventor had been in the air for some time, and had covered considerable space.

athered about him. "Ven I gets me my motor fixed up a b

ers were issued soon afterward by the management that no persons, except invento

Ned, when they had reached the ground and taken an

declared Jerr

in wooden buildings and some under tents. The boys voted for a tent, and made the

e the mot

of the girls of Cresville, with whom

led Jerry. "Come and

replied. "Perhaps you will wish to recall your invita

d. "That'll be one apiece for

Bob, who was looking at

ump. Don't you want a nic

ned for Alice and Helen to join her, and soon the me

much to Bob's delight, and finish

do this afternoon?" asked J

"We only came on the noon train, and w

"We saw Noddy Nixon try to fly, and

eally fly?"

e it," replied Ned with grim hu

balloons this afternoon," announced Andy Rush, co

erry. "Now, what will we d

a good one. There was room, with a little squeezing, for all of them, and they went out in the

iron filings, was the lifting power of the balloons. There were several

g, a box-kite arrangement for slanting up higher or descending, and a rudder to steer to right or left. These attachments were contained in a light framework

danger to us, and we can see several in the air at once. There'll p

s of inflation. Slowly the oiled silk gas containers filled, as the light hydrogen vapor poured into them.

ery prospect of a successful ascension. On all sides could

he balloons are filled," remarked Mollie

t for the whole wor

for two worlds

he saw a tent being opened, and the poin

one. It's a balloon and aeroplane combined. That'

n that. If the gas gave out or the bag busted you could depend on the

both broke?"

hen-well, o

ng an answer by a shout from the crowd,

into the air, as the men holding the

ried Andy Rush. "It's a race-the