chapter 1 the great wind one day,in

chapter 1 the great wind
one day,in March 1865, there was a great wind. It began quite suddenly. It pulled down trees and buildings across the world. It sent many ships to the bottom of the sea.
when the wind began, there were four men, a boy and a dog high in the sky in a balloon. How did they get there?
In America in 1865, there was fighting between the north of the country and the south. These four men were prisoners in the town of Richmond, Virginia. in the south. One day they took a balloon - but that's a different story! They flew north in the balloon. A boy helped them to get away, and they took him with them. One man had a dog, and they took him, too
But they took the balloon and carried it away from the land and our over the Pacific. The balloon went faster and faster. The wind pushed it this way and that way.
After many days, the wind got weaker, but then the balloon started to go down. It fell very, very quickly. The men shouted,
'Throw out more bags!'
'That's the last bag.'
'Are we going up again?'
'No, we're going down.'
'Look! We're near the sea!'
'Look at the waves.They're thirty feet high. We'll die. What can we do?'