Worthing Pier

When several separate pellets are placed in a blowpipe, they still shoot forth in their order, and separately from each other.

So the fourteen lift cages appeared one after the other in the air, each soaring after the other and describing a glorious parabola, which landed one of them in the sea near Worthing Pier, and a second one in a field not far from Chichester.

Spectators have averred that of all the strange sights that they have seen nothing could ever exceed that of the fourteen lift-cages sailing serenely through the blue heavens.

Then came the geyser.