A Trip to the Moon

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23103, 30 July 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

A Trip to the Moon

By M. HEMMING.

C<;y~vUICK, Molly," cried Jack, i H "the airship is just off; hurry up. You'll miss it." Molly looked out, and there was the airship" all i-i-ady, the full moon shining round and golden, and stietching the earth to the moon was a broad electrified beam of light, the pathway along which'the airship would tra\cl for its monthly trip to the moon. Soon Molly, Jack and a large number of passengers were seated, and the ship, with incredible swiftness, was speeding on its wav, gathering its power from its electrified path. In a few hours the moon was reached, and there were the moon peaplc all gathered awaiting its arrival. Thc-v wnrn gentle, little round-faced people, who never hurt anything or anybody. They were small and somewhat bent, but wonderfully agile. They were fawn-coloured, and wore fawncoloured garments, for there was no variation of colour on the moon, and people, clothes, animals, trees and the moon itself all looked the colour of faded leaves. Thev lived in caverns, and these caverns covered most of the near surface of the moon. They were cosy and warm, but dark. This fact did not trouble the little moon people at all, as they could see in the dark even better than in the light. Their food, which grew in the smaller caverns, looked like thick, juicy, brownish stems. When they were

you tip; and old, for they could all run so fast and jump so high. No one got tin; least bit tired, for the air was so wonder fully light, and so invigoratinir After a while, Molly thought sho would like to see the caverns, so sho borrowed Jack's torch, and visited a number of them, saw where the moou

people slept, and tasted their food which she didn't hke at all. ' Time went so quickly, that it was not until Jack's torch flickered and went out that she remembered the airship must be due to travel very soon. She hurried to the surface, and to her dismay, she saw it flying swiftly awav, on its broad beam of light, back' to her great shining earth. Then she realised