Curing A WouldBe Aviator (1913)

Bloomer a cadet at a Military Academy almost disrupts the morning drill when he rushes through the lines exclaiming Look at the balloon While the men are in derision for his action a hazing is planned for Bloomer He is quickly tied up in a bag and he first experiences a rough ride in a wheelbarrow after which he is dumped into a baymound He is next suspended in midair at the end of a rope where he is left to dangle until he is released by his superior officers After many such painful subjections he is finally given a note to deliver to the landlady which upon reading she begets herself into such a passion that before Bloomer leaves the room he is a sorrowful looking spectacle