The nights are too hot."
"Why, it 's quite cool this evening!" said the magistrate.
"I 'll tell you what we can do," remarked the astronomer; "there 's a
big balloon in town which belongs to the circus that came here last
summer, and was pawned for a board bill. We can inflate this balloon
and send the Man out of the Moon home in it."
"That 's a good idea," replied the judge. So the balloon was brought
and inflated, and the Man got into the basket and gave the word to let
go, and then the balloon mounted up into the sky in the direction of
the moon.
The good people of Norwich stood on the earth and tipped back their
heads, and watched the balloon go higher and higher, until finally the
Man reached out and caught hold of the edge of the moon, and behold!
the next minute he was the Man in the Moon again!
After this adventure he was well contented to stay at home; and I 've
no doubt if you look through a telescope you will see him there to
this day.
The Jolly Miller
The Jolly Miller
There was a jolly miller
Lived on the river Dee;
He sang and worked from morn till night,
No lark so blithe as he.
And this the burden of his song
Forever seemed to be:
I care for nobody, no! not I,
Since nobody cares for me.
"Cree-e-eekety-cruck-crick! cree-e-eekety-cruck-crick!" sang out the
big wheel of the mill upon the river Dee, for it was old and ricketty
and had worked many years grinding corn for the miller; so from
morning till night it creaked and growled and complained as if
rebelling against the work it must do.
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