I'll look like an observation Ballooner, or whatever you call 'em."
"Tom Slade with the Boys Over There"
Percy K. Fitzhugh
With what an ease and majesty she comes along, scarcely dipping to the slight summer waves, while they on board notice that she has put out her long spinnaker boom, ready to hoist a great Ballooner as soon as she is round the lightship and running home before the wind.
"Macleod of Dare"
William Black