"Father at once turned about fifteen volts into his right shoe and I rose for a distance of four feet.

   "I returned almost immediately, but this short flying trip made a deep impression upon my mind, and otherwise.

   "Ten years later I left home just to convince my father that I could rise in the world without his kindly collaboration.

   "One day while in New York I went up to the fifty-ninth floor of a sky-remover building.

   "The elevator was extremely nervous that day.

   "While coming down I was pained and surprised to observe that my stomach did not travel with me.

   "I spoke to the

    charge d'affaires

   of the elevator about it.

   "I complained bitterly to him about such an inhuman invention which rushed through space with a man's exterior and left his interior to bump its way downstairs.

   "The

    charge d'affaires

   of the elevator told me if I did not like it to get out and fly.

   "That was the inspiration which drove me to build the flying machine.

   "Two weeks later I went to Paris, because that is the flyest city in the world."

   Beauty is only a skin game after all.

   Bad beginners make bad finishers.

   Birds of a feather flock together on the theatre hats.

   Be sure you're ahead—then go right.

   The second letter of the alphabet. It is called a vocal labial consonant, which, no doubt, serves it right.

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