But they wasn't a rip in her, and the parachute was jest as good as new.
"There's no reason why we can't give a show of our own," says Doctor Kirby, "with you boys and Danny and me and that balloon.

What we want is a lot with a high board fence around it, like a baseball grounds, and the chance to tap a gas main." He says he'll be willing to take a chancet on it, even paying the gas company real money to fill her up.
What the Doctor didn't know about starting shows wasn't worth knowing.
He had even went in for the real drama in his younger days now and then.
"One of my theatrical productions came very near succeeding, too," he says.
It was a play he says, in which the hero falls in love with a pair of Siamese twins and commits suicide because he can't make a choice between them.
"We played it as comedy in the big towns and tragedy in the little ones," he says.

"But like a fool I booked it for two weeks of middle-sized towns and it broke us." The next day he finds a lot that will do jest fine.

It has been used fur a school playgrounds, but the school has been moved and the old building is to be tore down.

He hired the place cheap.