"Stop! stop he cried!" my dog.
"Stuff her down," said the unmoved airman, "between your legs.She's not the first to go up and won't be the last to come down."Mr.Lavender stuffed her down as best he could."If we are to be killed," he thought, "it will be together.Blink!" The faithful creature, who bitterly regretted her position now that the motion had begun, looked up with a darkened eye at Mr.Lavender, who was stopping his ears against the horrible noises which had now begun.He ,too, had become aware of the pit of his stomach; but this sensation soon passed away in the excitement he felt at getting away from the earth, for they were already at the height of a house, and rising rapidly.
"It is not at all like a little bird," he thought, but rather resembles a slow train on the surface of the sea, or a horse on a switchback merry-go-round.I feel, however, that my spirit will soon be free, for the earth is becoming like a board whereon a game is played by an unseen hand, and I am leaving it." And craning his head out a little too far he felt his chin knock against his spine.Drawing it in with difficulty he concentrated his attention upon that purification of his spirit which was the object of his journey.