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there and talks about changing
£ laces with me. I expect you would
e rather surprised down below
there if some fine day—or night,
rather—you found a woman in the
moon instead of a man. Ha, ha,
ha!” And forgetful of his recent
fit of the blues the old chap gave
rent to a hearty guffaw.
“We should indeed,” I replied,
laughing in my turn, “although I
fancy, unless your sister’s appear
ance differs in a marked degree
from your own, that we should
scarcely be able to distinguish the
difference. You must admit your
self that one must possess good
eyesight to tell a man from a wo
man 240,000 miles away.”
“Oh, but,” answered the old
man, with a touch of family pride,
“she is a fine woman! Not bent
and bowed with age like me. Indeed
■he is really 6,000,000 years young
er than am I. Then, of course, she
dresses in—in”—
'"The habiliments suitable to her
sex,” I ventured to say.
“Precisely, and, like all the wo
men here, is fond of dress. Why,
when I last visited her, some 25,000
years ago, almost her first question
was, ‘How do the women dress now
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Scarcely had I recovered - mj
breath when an aged man of ven
erable aspect, whom I at once recog
nized as the man in the moon, ap
proached me and inquired my busi
ness. 1 explained that I was an
involuntary trespasser on his hos
pitality, and then, thinking as I
was there I might os well learn
something about the history of our
satellite and its inhabitants—sup
posing there were any—I proceeded
as respectfully as might be to ques
tion the old fellow.
“Yes, you are right!” he exclaim
ed in answer to my query as he
placed the load of fagots he was car
rying on a projecting mass of gran
ite and rested his back against the
cone of an extinct volcano. “I have
seen‘a lot of changes in my time.
How old am I ? Well, I don’t know
exactly, but it is some millions of
years ago since my first birthday.
“Why, bless my heart, when I
was a lad this old, dried up moon
was as bright and fresh as your
earth is now.
“Seas sparkled in the sunlight,
brooks gleamed and dashed through
the valleys, and forests clothed with
verdure the mountains now dead
and silent. Aye, these were glorious
times. The birds sang in the woods
from early dawn to nightfall, the
fishes leaped and plashed and leaped
and plashed again in every eddy and
pool of our prehistoric rivers. Great
mammals, 6ome uncouth and some
beautiful, but mostly the latter,
roamed at will amid the glades of
our mighty forests. Then, after a
mlHiTn; years or so, man came.”
“Man?” I repeated incredulously.
“Yes, man,” he reiterated rather
testily. “Man, of tourse. Do you
think your earth alone has been the
home of man? I tell you he lived
and flourished here while the earth
was yet formless and void, a vast
white hot mass of semifluid granite.
At first he was weak for lack of
knowledge, and fought—often un
successfully—with the wild beasts
of the . forests for food and drink
and raiment. Then as he grew older
he grew wiser and carved for him
self weapons of flint and wood, just
as the earth man did a million or
two years afterward. Our lunar
men were very clever, too, very
clever; not so large or so strong
as terrestrial man, perhaps, but
quicker to learn. Why, it did not
take us more than 200,000 years to
perfect our civilisation.”
“And what happened then?” was
my next query.
“Ah, there you have asked a
question hard to answer,” quoth
ue old man sadly. “All I know
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•n the earth?’
wasn’t much to tell her, because—
well, the women of that day didn’t
trouble , themselves much about
dress, but I am thinking of paying
her another visit soon, and then I
shall have a different budget of news
for her.”
“But tell me,” I interrupted, for
I was not much interested in the old
fellow’s sister, “something about
the earth. You must have seen al
most as great changes in the earth
ts in the moon.”
“Almost,” was the answer, “but
not quite. My world is cold and
dead. Yours is still alive, as was
mine once, but your turn will come
some day, and then we shall both go
circling through space, cold, silent
and lifeless. But that,” he contin
ued, “will be many millions of years
from now, almost as many millions
as it is since I first set eyes on your
planet. Then, as I said before, it
was a mere mass of molten matter—
a vast white hot ball whirling round
the sun and carrying me with it.
I remember as though it were yes
terday the first beginning of earth
ly life. At first the seas covered
everything, and beautiful specimens
of marine flora floated everywhere
upon the surface of the water, while
in its translucent depths fishes of
strange form and glorious coloring
disported themselves. Then the dry
land began to appear, and by slow
degrees the great forests that
shrouded as with a mantle all the
earth not covered by the waters.
For millions of years what you are
pleased to call the lower animals
were the only denizens of their
somber depths, and even after man
came it was hundreds of thousands
of yeara before he even partially
dominated the face of nature.”
“But was there not,” I asked, “an
ice age?”
“A what?” he exclaimed, with a
puzzled expression of countenance.
“An ice age,” I repeated, “a
period of time when the ice, which,
as you are aware, is always present
at the poles, spread northward and
southward until it enveloped almost
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