"There is no one in the balloon; it is not big enough to hold even a little boy like you or Frank." "Isn't it, papa ?" returned the child, dropping his head on his father's shoulder with a sigh of relief.
"Oh it's Cousin Ronald, it's just Cousin Ronald!" exclaimed the children, their tears changing at once to laughter.
"Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm, um h'm! so it is, bairnies, just Cousin Ronald at his old tricks again," laughed Mr.Lilburn.
"Oh there's nobody in it; so we needn't care how high it goes," cried Eddie, jumping and clapping his hands, "See! see! it's up in the clouds now, and doesn't look as big as my cap." "Not half so big, I should say," remarked Herbert.

"And there, it's quite gone." The dinner bell rang and all repaired to the dining-room..