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501 XL     |          until our next trip,” said Joe, laughing.~“Besides, my
502 XL     |          thing will be over!” added Joe. “Heigh-ho! so much the
503 XL     |             doctor?”~“Who can tell, Joe? One thing, however, will
504 XL     |         Kennedy.~“Ah, doctor!” said Joe again, with a deep sigh, “
505 XLI    |           Kennedy’s Weapons.—One of Joe’s Manoeuvres.—A Halt over
506 XLI    |             is quite considerable.”~Joe, who was interested in this
507 XLI    |             them, or hyenas?” asked Joe, with an expression of sovereign
508 XLI    |        hands.”~“We shall not,” said Joe, “even if we have to throw
509 XLI    |          The poor Victoria!” sighed Joe; “I had got fond of her
510 XLI    |             her.”~“Be at your ease, Joe; if we leave her, it will
511 XLI    |          thinner and thinner,” said Joe, dolefully, while he eyed
512 XLI    |          seem to shut us in,” added Joe. “They are gaining on both
513 XLI    |             There it goes,” shouted Joe.~“Does the balloon rise
514 XLI    |              There they go!” panted Joe. “But it’s hard to see ourselves
515 XLI    |    piecemeal.”~“Now, for your part, Joe, make no attempt to sacrifice
516 XLI    |              Well, doctor?” queried Joe.~“Keep nothing but our pemmican,
517 XLI    |             are close to it!” cried Joe.~Sixty feet! The mountain
518 XLI    |          the balloon by sixty feet.~Joe took the blankets and other
519 XLI    |             one moment!” they heard Joe exclaim, and, looking around,
520 XLI    |            looking around, they saw Joe disappear over the edge
521 XLI    |           the edge of the balloon.~“Joe! Joe!” cried Kennedy.~“Wretched
522 XLI    |          edge of the balloon.~“Joe! Joe!” cried Kennedy.~“Wretched
523 XLI    |           the abyss was before him, Joe, by a vigorous effort, hoisted
524 XLI    |        coolly ejaculated.~“My brave Joe! my friend!” said the doctor,
525 XLI    |             Throw out your anchors, Joe!”~Joe immediately obeyed,
526 XLI    |             out your anchors, Joe!”~Joe immediately obeyed, and
527 XLII   |            The Dilating Apparatus. —Joe’s Adroitness.—Midnight.—
528 XLII   |          You, indeed!” remonstrated Joe; “ain’t I used to—”~“The
529 XLII   |            consent to it!” insisted Joe.~“Your generous rivalry
530 XLII   |              That’s the talk,” said Joe; “a little tramp won’t do
531 XLII   |         your orders, master,” added Joe.~“I repeat, my friends,
532 XLII   |           promptly.~“To work!” said Joe.~It was no easy job. The
533 XLII   |          but Kennedy was so strong, Joe so adroit, and the doctor
534 XLII   |          mightily astonished,” said Joe, “at finding things like
535 XLII   |          connected with the spiral. Joe succeeded in cutting the
536 XLII   |             valve.~Then it was that Joe showed wonderful adroitness.
537 XLII   |            no more fire to place at Joe’s disposal.~Besides, the
538 XLII   |            four, Kennedy will waken Joe, and at six we’ll start;
539 XLII   |    vigilance, took his place beside Joe, and fell sound asleep.~
540 XLII   |           exclamation.~“Fire!” said Joe. “But who could—”~At this
541 XLII   |             Ah! the savages!” cried Joe again; “they have set fire
542 XLIII  |            the right time!” replied Joe. “One gets out of scrapes
543 XLIII  |         brutes can’t fly,” remarked Joe; “and that’s something.”~“
544 XLIII  |            barometer.~“In any case, Joe,” added Kennedy, “it would
545 XLIII  |             at their leisure,” said Joe. “They’re only at a short
546 XLIII  |              The mischief!” thought Joe~In the lapse of fifteen
547 XLIII  |             far, you fools!” bawled Joe. “I think it would be well
548 XLIII  |            can we throw out?” asked Joe.~“All that remains of our
549 XLIII  |             Out it goes, sir!” said Joe, obeying orders.~The car,
550 XLIII  |           reserved store of brandy, Joe,” cried the doctor; “our
551 XLIII  |              because go they must!”~Joe flung out the barometers
552 XLIII  |         Kennedy; “we have to fall!”~Joe made no answer. He kept
553 XLIII  |            the doctor directed, and Joe, holding on by one hand,
554 XLIII  |            from the river!” groaned Joe.~The three hapless aeronauts
555 XLIII  |            over!”~“I knew it,” said Joe, with that confidence in
556 XLIII  |          are, indeed, a great man!”~Joe and Kennedy at once went
557 XLIII  |             More grass! more grass, Joe! In ten minutes we shall
558 XLIII  |        flight.~“We’re off!” shouted Joe.~A volley of musketry responded
559 XLIII  |             The poor Victoria!” was Joe’s farewell remark.~The doctor
560 XLIV   |    excitement and fatigue.~Besides, Joe said to every one who chose
561 XLIV   |          The doctor and his devoted Joe remained the same men that