Since writing my last, I had been to Paris par ballon monté, and was now returning in the diligence that took five American ladies and a couple of war correspondents, all friends of WASHBURNE, away from the temptation of eating horse-flesh in the beleaguered city, to such edibles as the rapacity of the German appetite had left undevoured in the neighborhood of the old "stamping grounds" of Louis XVI.

And then West's club swung back gently, easily, paused an instantand Forward sped the ballon and onslowerslowerbut straight as an arrowand thenPresto!

To this end he threw up a few tiny ballons d'essaiexperiments in the manner of some of his popular contemporaries, and printed them in the columns of the Edinburgh Annual Register.