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Rh do, and the consequence is, we might be run down amid such a crowd." So we waited and saw them all start. There were men and women of all ages in those strange simple white costumes, all with the same great thoughtful faces, great heads and eyes. First they walked for about thirty yards, quite quietly, then all at once they threw out a little ballast, and began to trip away in hundreds in their odd hop, skip and a jump fashion, at a marvellous speed, passing over everything. It was the very funniest sight I had ever seen. The Recorder looked at me saying:—"That flight represents a considerable power," and continuing said, "I think I will couple up your leg weights, my Specimen, and see how you get on generating your own power." On saying this, he secured a small bright wire to each leg weight and passed it over my shoulder down the front of my body to the weight on the opposite leg. When this was done he joined the two wires where they crossed in the front and back of my body by a pair of little clasps like a brooch,