Five Weeks in a Balloon

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swallowed by their own machines. I've always thought that the last day will be brought about by some colossal boiler heated to three thousand atmospheres blowing up the world." "And I bet the Yankees will have had a hand in it," said Joe.

Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!

The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!

If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?

Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.

Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.