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140 offered by the rest of his body, had been sufficient, now that his movements were unimpeded by the attraction of gravitation, to set him turning around as if on a pivot, the resistance of the air being insufficient to stop him. In fact, he found it necessary to throw up his other arm in order to stop himself.

William amused himself for a time by thus making his body revolve like a wheel, first in one direction and then in another, and found it a most novel experience. He enjoyed it immensely, but after a while the sport became monotonous; in fact, worse than that, our hero began to feel the first symptoms of seasickness, and wished he could reach the bottom of the car.

"I don't know how it is," he said, "but my head feels queer, as though this spinning had sent all the blood into it." He did not reflect that, besides this, there was the fact that his blood was no longer attracted downward into his legs by gravitation, and that consequently an undue flow was sent to his head.

The novelty of the situation having passed away, our hero began to feel a trifle blue.

"It is curious," said he, "but although I am perfectly free in all my motions, and am not tied