No More Learning
As I ran at full speed,
with my nose up in the atmosphere, and intent only
upon the purloiner of my property, I suddenly per-
ceived that my feet rested no longer upon terra-firma;
the fact is, I had thrown myself over a precipice, and
should inevitably have been dashed to pieces but for
my good fortune in grasping the end of a long guide-
rope, which           from a passing balloon.