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to hold our balance. But I had time to get our surroundings.

We were on a thumb! 1t was bearing us across the room. The shrill thunder was laughter. We were astride the thumb nail! We had come out just underneath the nail! That was what I had taken for the great semi-transparent roof.

The gulf grew smaller, and I beheld vast flat surface below us. The thumb had lifted us upon a table. We were in an immense room, full of men, vast forms, unlike any I had ever seen. They were moving about and all talking at once. The noise was terrible.

Still we were growing!

At last we were large enough to step off the thumb to the table. I took Sora’s hand in mine and stood up.

In a few minutes we were large enough to understand our surroundings. The men were grouped about us—great wonderful beings, bearded and splendid! They were gazing down upon us, with eyes filled with wonder. I saw that we were as miraculous to them as they were to us. I held Sora’s arm and made a sweep with my hand, trying to convey the suggestion that I wanted them to sit down.

They seemed to understand. That was better. In their chairs they were not so terrible.

Oh, Alvas! What sort of a room is this? What is that thing hanging, yonder, from the ceiling?"

I looked and saw we were in an observatory. The men were astronomers! The thing that hung from the ceiling was a telescope. They were studying stars.

HESE supermen had set out to solve the riddle of the stars. I pointed to the telescope. If I could only let them know what I knew, and make them understand how we had come. I tried to convey my meaning of an earth. They held their heads close to the table. Again I pointed to the telescope. I would see the stars! Finally I made them understand. One of them placed his hand, palm up, upon, the table. It was an immense hand. When we did not move he touched us with his finger. The next instant Sora and I were being borne to the telescope.

It was an immense affair. The eye-piece alone was twenty-six inches across, so that it was much like looking through the immense lense of one of our own telescopes.

I could see stars, and constellations, and moons. The structure of this major plane was much like our own solar system. There was a similarity that was striking.

The men were watching us, their great eyes glowing like huge fires of intelligence. Their curiosity had been excited by our interest in their telescope. They spoke and rumbled together; and gesticulated with their hands. At last they seemed to come to an agreement. The hand that held us conveyed us, as tenderly as possible, back to the table.

Then one of them stretched a white substance, much like parchment, out at my feet. He placed a long cane in my hand. The cane was a pencil. The great eyes were watching, wondering if I could understand. Then I realized what was wanted. I could not speak nor explain  

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