Robert Merry's museum, Volumes III-IV (1842)Various
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Robert Merry's museum, Volumes III-IV (1842)
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
Extended GREAT VARIETY
Gothic OF FANCY TYPE; AND YOU WILL
Gothic Outline ALSO SEE HOW THEY ARE SET
Tuscan Shade UP, AND HOW THEY ARE
Full-face (Capitals) PRINTED, WITH WHAT HE CALLS A
Phantom ROTARY PRESS.
Condensed (Capitals) YOU WILL ALSO SEE PRESSES WORKED BY STEAM,
AND EN-
Full-face Italic _gaged in printing books, newspapers,_
Extra Condensed PAMPHLETS, MAGAZINES, AND MANY
Shaded {OTHER THINGS. IF YOU WILL
{GO TO NO. 66 CONGRESS STREET,
Ornamented YOU WILL FIND WHERE
Title Letter MERRY’S MUSEUM
French Shade IS STEREOTYPED.
[Illustration]
PETER PARLEY’S NEW STORIES.
No. II.
About the Three Sisters.
There were once three little girls, who went to see a balloon. When
they got to the place, they saw that it was a great bag of silk, with a
netting put over it, and to this netting, a little car was attached.
There were a great many people around the place, anxious to see the
balloon rise and sail away in the air. There were several persons very
busy in filling the balloon with what is called _hydrogen gas_, which
is a kind of air, and so light that it rises upward and carries the
balloon with it.
Pretty soon there was considerable gas in the balloon, and it then
began to ascend a little; in a short time it rose more, and, after a
few minutes, it seemed in such a hurry to get away that several men
were obliged to take hold of the net-work, and restrain it till all was
ready.
Now a man by the name of Lauriat, who had made the balloon, was
going up with it. When all was prepared, he got into the little car,
holding in his lap a cat fastened in a cage, with a thing like an
umbrella, attached to it. In a few moments Mr. Lauriat called out, “all
right!”--and the men let go of the net-work, and up went the balloon,
and up went Mr. Lauriat in the little car hanging beneath it!
It was a beautiful sight, and the people were so delighted, that the
air rang with acclamations. The three little girls, whom we shall call
History, Poetry, and Romance, were as much pleased as anybody, and
shouted, with their little voices, as loud as they could. What made it
all more pleasant, was that the people could see Mr. Lauriat, who waved
a little flag, as he ascended; and though it was almost frightful to
see a man so high in the air, yet he appeared quite at his ease and
very much gratified.
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