And not fur the better.
He told me how he had blowed clean acrost Lake Erie in that there balloon.

And then when he got over land agin and went to pull the cord that lets the parachute loose it wouldn't work at first.

He jest natcherally drifted on into the midst of nowhere, he said--miles and miles into Canada.

When he lit the balloon had lost so much gas and was flying so low that the parachute didn't open out quick enough to do much floating.

So he lit hard, and come near being knocked out fur good.
But-- *AUTHOR'S NOTE--Can it be that Danny struggles vaguely to report some reference to FIDUS ACHATES?
that wasn't the worst of it, fur the exposure had crawled into his lungs by the time he found a house, and he got newmonia into them also, and like to of died.