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blowing pretty hard, and when the wire was run out 
the balloon started almost horizontally for the near¬ 
est tree, rising slightly. 
The wire was stopped at once and the balloon 
thus suddenly restrained, changed its horizontal 
course to an upward one. At about sixty feet up 
a dash for the trees again. Once more the balloon 
was stopped and rose to a height of one hundred 
and fifty feet, where it swayed about with the pleas¬ 
ant face of Stephenson looking over the edge of 
the basket. He had to sit down, as there was not 
room to stand. The ascension seemed a failure with 
