Baron Münchhausen rides the cannonball
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Baron Münchhausen rides the cannonball.
- "Without revealing my plan to any one, I waited till the word 'Fire' was given, and the gunner applied the match to the touch-hole; then I sprang on to the cannon-ball intending to let it bear me inside the fortress, but when I was half-way there it occurred to me that I was acting very rashly. 'It is all very well,' thought I, 'to get inside the fortress, but how shall I get out afterwards? And what will happen to me in there?'
- 'I knew that if I were taken as a spy I should be hanged on the nearest gallows— an ignominious end for one who bore the proud name of Munchausen !
- "As these thoughts passed through my mind, I perceived a bullet directed from the fortress against our camp passing a few feet from me. Without further hesitation I leaped on it, and returned to our army, without, it is true, having accomplished my project, but at least safe and sound. [1]
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