Catching bullets from a hot air balloon, illustration. From the book 'Mr. Munchausen; being a true account of some of the recent adventures beyond the Styx of the late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal by John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922). Published in Boston, USA, by Noyes, Platt and company in 1901 with artwork by Peter Newell.