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nature calculated to upset the equilibrium. But I must be devoid of that feeling for I didn't mind it in the least and rather felt like, "Well, this beats everything for excitement. Doesn't the world look great!" You see, after I had noted the absence of a passenger, and had fixed the balance, I was interested in watching the ground, the revolution counter, the altimeter. Last Wednesday Guernsey, Fitzbee, Grant and I had taken a long walk across the pasture land. It had taken us a few hours and then some. The plane covered the same distance in a few minutes. That is why I looked at the ground. The speed of somewheres between 50 and 90 miles per hour interested me. The "rev. counter" showed a good engine so I paid less attention to it, but the altimeter was facinating to watch as the needle took successive jumps from zero feet to eight hundred. That was