Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — Didn't Give Instructions. [ARTICLE]

Didn't Give Instructions.

A Georgia man who had made a flying machine offered n negro $lO to make a trial trip in it. The negro agreed, got in position,and he and the mach'lno were hoisted by block and tackle about thirty feet from terra flrmn. When the rope was loosened the machine took a sudden slanting course toward earth and plunged into an adjacent mill pond. It disappeared with tlie negro beneath the water, while the terrified inventor stood shrieking for assistance. ITesently the negro's head bobbed up serenely, and he struck out for dry land. On arriving his first sputtering words were: "In de name er God, Marso John, why didn’t you tell dat foobthl&g whnr ter light?"