- THE BRIDE OF DANGER." 
is Llii.it they gave me the 
keen ambition to go 
beyond them, and to 
explore the air as well as 
the earth. I first went 
up in a balloon with the 
aeronau t$ B 1 an c h e t , 
Baehclard. and Barbette, 
and afterwards I ob- 
tained a pilot's licence 
from the Aero Club of 
the East and from the 
Aero Club of France. In 
i oxo 1 load the threat 
of the hook of the rope 
catching in a rock. I have 
also had the agreeable 
experience of being nearly- 
roasted alive when climb- 
ing Vesuvius during an 
eruption. 
“ These impressions are 
very vivid, I assure you, 
and there is a pleasure in 
looking back on therm. 
But what I owe most, 
perhaps, to the mountains 
VARIOUS a PORTS AM) PASTIMES — Uli 
UARDS, TENNIS, SKATING, CLIMBING. 
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