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10 THE MAN IN THE MOON

of Dogs, the Blackwall, Plaistow, Woolwich, and Erith; and at last prepared to descend near Rainham, in Essex. 

The progress of the descending is as follows; - Mr. Green throws out a grapnel of iron, about four feet long, which leaps along the ground in a very wonderful manner, and a last holds fast. 

The progress of the balloon is thus suddenly checked, and, from the shock, the passengers perform various feats, in the manner of Professor Risley and his Sons, as follows:-

[[Black and white image - several comical men about the gondola and hoop of a balloon]]

THE FIRST CHECK OF THE GRAPNEL.

You cannot form a clear notion of those "Bounding Balls of the Balloon" (as an Astley's bill would say), unless you put some corks in a  drum, and then give it a good bang, when they will imitate tolerably well the absurd conduct of the passengers when the grapnel first catches. But this is not all that may occur. The 
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[[Black and white image - cow caught by grapnel]]

ADVANTAGE OF THE GRAPNEL

is sometimes shown hooking up cattle for stores; and this fate nearly befel one the cows of Mr. Blewitt, the gentleman on whose land we were about to descend, but no connexion with the veteran of the same from whom "the favour of a song is requested" so often after dinner at the Freemasons'.

The cows appeared, however, to be up to it, and hooked it themselves, lest they should be hooked. Indeed,
 
[[Black and white image - herd of cows running in all directions]]

THE PANIC OF THE CATTLE, WHEN THEY FIRST SAW THE BALLOON COMING DOWN,
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