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one of our Baloons yesterday & apparently done some damage because a few minutes later two little dolls slipped over the side & came down with parachutes. One started half a minute before the other and landed 3 minutes strike>after before him. I think the second must have been killed because he came down at a tremendous rate much too quickly for safety. The Baloon must have been attached to a motor because we could see it travelling away. In fact we thought at first that the shell had curt the rope & th thus caused the observers to descend but the Baloon afterward came down & reascended some distance from its original possy.
I leave for Paris at 7.59 tomorrow morning.
Thursday 20.3.18 Arrived at Paris at 8.20P.M on Tuesday night. Yesterday we went to Versailles. Missed the coach this morning after a visit to Pepiniere Barracks. Had a trip with Louis Parsons instead. We went to the Invalides, Napoleon's tomb, Big Wheel, Trocadero, Eiffel Tower Arc de Triumphe. Had two tiptop feeds & then done the Folies Begere, about the liveliest place I've seen in a very lively City. Had plenty of fun & no "Gutsers" N.B. we went with a "Mackerel" (To be explained later) A feature of the pace was a Yankee M.P. with a very persuasive looking truncheon [shorthand]