In less than six weeks the
overcome. Many evenings had been devoted to discussing, not the form
behind, as the Tissandier brothers had done, or before as Captains
partisans of the two systems had almost come to blows. The group of
Uncle Prudent, who ought to have given the casting vote--Uncle
could not bring himself to decide.
Hence the impossibility of getting the screw into place. The dispute
the United States the government meddles with private affairs as
threatened to end in a riot.html">riot--insults exchanged, fisticuffs
revolver shots succeeding the cane thrashings--when at thirty-seven
policeman amid the storm of the meeting, approached the presidential
Prudent found it convenient to give.
Uncle Prudent turned on the steam whistle, which did duty for the
vain! But the tumult slackened not.
Then the president removed his hat. Thanks to this extreme measure a
the snuff-box which never left him.
"Speak up!" answered eighty-nine voices, accidentally in agreement on
Prudent, 'that to believe.html">believe in guiding balloons is to believe in the
Evans.
"Robur," replied Uncle Prudent.
"Robur! Robur! Robur!" yelled the assembly. And the welcome accorded
Institute hoping to vent its exasperation on the head of him who bore
"Citizens of the United States! My name is Robur. I am worthy of the
constitution of iron, a healthy vigor that nothing can shake, a
thoughtfirst class even in an ostrich!"
They were listening! Yes! The riot was quelled at once by the.
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