Show a U j jt i t f a t j L Li Y i r tJ c Do o U fl 11 s 5 o o 4 3 t to orie i e 5 3 I r 0 h iJ d dr e t I n nu u A A A TALE ALE T o of w the Mom Met Men M Were ere Foiled F fm ii Their sir Effort to Kidnap a it Group of o Boys by One Oneas Was as Imposed on ol by Others Other ter HIS is ia the story of how a pose peer week weak THIS boy Nr became th tile the owner of the thein finest beat in m all the world after alter being t a g giant mt self seU Douglas Hawtrey Godard was vu the tM naps of this dill thi thib boy who was Mas feeble and aDd timid and aud unable to join jam in ia b tn th the rough play of the die other boys boa so 10 host of h his J a timo time was wa spent in rudy sudy I He Be knew mew wavy many Ian Isai wages and anti these there was wis not a word that ke 1 s e Ia ep t pt pIon 11 ll or a place in the geography be he di der EI B ribs But whit wh t he be wasted wanted w ted to ploy play o leer her r bo swu s was denied him because they refused t play with so 50 small and weak a lad lade They drove drop w wIt lilt him away It fay with it h sharp harp cutting words worda and told toft him hia to fj g gand fjand and BlId play with girls or learn to do knitting him and and refused to 10 let 1 Ii t Mini him even stand around when they played One Uno fine fiche liu day in May Xay ay Oscar Li Lipton on Amos Hoi brook br ok Frank Delano DelaBo Raymond Foster and ud Sir Her man elan W were spinning tops in a vacant cut lot mt wins when j q Douglas came limping along and aDd stopped to io look Joek at a them Get et along out o 0 here cried Frank Delano Tj a abig abia big bia brawny brainy boy with a large larae Adams Adam apple appis 00 Glay Go G play lay over at a the kindergarten 1 Test Yes I shouted Amos Amoe Holbrook who already alts last has shaved aha ved once o ro tt and had bad h d a pair pai of fiats like a emitha Chase Cha yourself I We Wel doat want WUi ne rM J ki around here hen t I That right r added Herman Win who wo u lift Ji ft fiftysix pounds with one OM finger beer Sneak Swim out or get hart hurt in the push This aid I no Do place for kids anyhow I They looked so 10 fierce that Douglas was alarmed and aid withdrew a few yards but lint the tM other bom boJI re ia repenting penting even his bis presence p in the lot moved mo of in in a a body casting euti back at him ban sour and l Douglas however in spite he of many rude remarks fl f olio of lowed wed them at a distance resolved to see aes what wha t tt thy t wore were about to do as u small n boys boll often do you yov know kIlow and sad was even when they ther went as aa far as u the river h re rc he ho had bad never D been Mon before Wore he be still clung chine to tr them Say cried ernes Baymond ad Foster Fo er you any alQ an sense reuse at all Cant you see es we tart dont went want you yon tag ging along ale P Now N just ja unity out oat OI or ear i d t t a swift aw t poke peD en on the moss give the you yea the heartburn Beef rDouglas r rDouglas Douglas was wag beat to tG retreat Jtb at ea suddenly ily Os 0 Oscar car cried hUt Heres rea a v ved d berry I er if ff its itt HK ME ATI An TOME MMAE All AU the beys gathered small u bush bash bear bar bearin r in hug pale pink berries beza hot but as u they had dud Winer aes seen t tany SUN any before like lib them they asked aired Douglas Dou what they were tore ere because they knew mew he be had studied elie everything e elIe lIe He could not tell the name of the berry and so N angered at having bT D adDed ached him hides h n they the compelled the poor MT weak child to eat at ill all of the berries herr at once ogres thinking to make maim him hum silk sick Ii although gh they tI knew bew tap ought light t be poisonous but the hardhearted 14 did d di I Ilot not lot care for that Now X ow these thele were ware mammoth berries which blossom bloo and nd ripen on but bat one sae day in the year ear the of May Hay If ay and ad they disappear inan iaan in an hour hoar ho eo so very fery few people p plc witches W and botanists taJ ata ever aver 1 them u all They hey have ban the marvelous power PO of talking one ODe who eats them grow suddenly and aDd un m unexpectedly expectedly at any moment to an enormous alas aise aileT Therefore T they are a ee e called mammoth berries berriel It was f ort although altho h so that the boys bors ide Douglas eat them aH all as a you win will see sea Any one ODe ODeo or oi o the tho lads would willingly have ha eaten them had he hie known 1 their magic powers to bit bet u as it was the glee weak weakest est eat t t and smallest t got IO them daem After be he had swallowed r e cry ono one the boys bon drove droe him hint away ey with jeers jeen and gibes fi tees They The were ware standing in threatening attitudes f facing him bim as u they the ordered orde him mm to go 10 and aDd none of them saw a very Tery remarkable e object in the air It v as aa b a thing shaped like lib an aD immense cigar that was WIll slowly along over the water toward them A AB B s rt o of in airship but unlike any ever seen een before It was VilS tilled with queer dwarfish hairy men with wit lar e misshaped l heads that looked more like lib those of ot fish fuh than human aman heads head aud all of them were glaring at a the tine group of boys bon o ou the shorn shore o oThe The airship came nearer pit end nearer swiftly sal sad silently anti and then s down As A s the startled boys bora turned to see what tut was the fishlike men poured put o out i of the oar ear and grabbed p M them each lad ad being beiDa seised by several taJa at it once onoe and so 10 powerful were the Ash m that e the burly burb Amos mOI was perfectly helpless at m ilL ib fiver grasp Like PO so o many begs bags the die bo boys ware barns As to err Clr the Ishmen z sprang in in alter ter them hem aj us i w Nil the a a p Do Douglas although alth uP the 1 W vea er erthe the he first fire to Me Ins Iaia senses and aad he het looked loo Md si at the ISM t men carefully Nf 0 THE MEN Me FROM hE MOON Ha Hn soon cosh 10 that tIIa bey were jot JK Teal MM er is rather not men of this world for fot no may beings Mete he era eier been seen on oa 0 eav WW mod short port U I le a long thick arms uma covered i rn nl fingernails mails nor teeth yet very fierce tene a their heady beads with their enormous red yea them thom teem sc m terrible indeed They taW talked in 11 a strange language e and it was u easy 81 te to see ens that they wire were lre conversing about their captives for forand mm riser and thru then they turned their awful red eyes upon As tile toys hove all of whom were in the utmost lt terror tenor The airship shot ahot upward so 10 swiftly that t it itu was wad wasas as u invisible as a bullet ballot fired from a ai gild dad and dadia thus thusa ia a i i an hour or so 80 Douglas saw they W M ing the moon Then he ho knew where the sin men had Jad come from They were moon men and in in their airship air airship ship tad had swooped down upon the tile earth after vie no viet not tima t i rna fDa He imagined that he be now could guess g whet where all 11 ll the people go who so 10 mysteriously disappear diets pear every day from their homes They are ea es by b moon men are carried armed to the Mt moon and aad never r return re return turn lIe He never expected to see lee his bia home homem again and ud l he wondered whether the moon men eat their t captives cap captives captives tives or make slaves of them But he did not DOt learn this then for just about that time b bl bf suddenly began beian to grow bigger bi and aDd bigger biger so It that in a few minutes he be the to peat great car carand ar arand and threw the moon men into extreme alarm for such auch a spectacle they nor anyone else e a had ever seen The Ib K icea f a of a am in only enly becoming beoo beo a giant ant before ones one N yea OC es scared beys boys too almost out of their the ir ei rut hit but no Do red that he be had once r read trad ad about dim sh g berries in one of my toy own own kories ret and he be rightly right guessed that the berries he be heC C n n Y THE R RAID OP OF THE MOON s t I IM MEN M EN ON 0 N THE TH E BOYS Ii c r s1 4 c k 4 i b bA 6 A 1 t tr k I Ii r 0 4 i i I Ir II r I 1 p j 1 t had W eaten ea mutt must t have Ie the very opposite op ef eat He whispered d this to Amos Amok Holbrook and aDd as u he be hew had w perhaps PI more sense than the others he too toG it was the th right solution Douglas pe w larger Jarer and larger until all the rest reIt were ware to the sides aides of the car and then theft t seeing see Iee DC that all the moon men were ere paralyzed with frith fear he be picked up their captain by the back of the t e neck DeCk and nd nde e ed him to turn the oar ear back to the t e earth eartho To o lass his surprise le the moon man understood him hay haT haTi baring lug ing i learned English from some former captive capt and he be reversed the of o the air ait airship airship ll ship p at once gnoe for without t thinking dri JDouglas had him bias h a over ever the aids aide MCh ek em eat all afi fl overboard r said satt Oscar qu Lett see lee if then break into pieces before Mi they Aey retch reach the earth Yell Ye Yea I cried Frank Fraak Fire The one ewe at that cloud be br below brow below low ow there then and see him puncture ize it Ill PI bet you hit hh it the first time I INo Ho No said id Douglas Do AI I will save II them tIIe for I 1 think I can an use them when beD we get back I will bit bet they have ha captured lots of people and Ill rn make males them tell teU what the e done with them When we get back baek we will torture them said Raymond Then confess eom Yes Yea cried Douglas do doa a lot loth I Id like Jib to leave Jure you alone with nth one of them tine i and see lee what d do I guess holler for me to come COllIe land and help you pretty prett quick I You talk big now DOW Its a wonder fODder I dont get back ba k at you all now DOW that Fv rye r got lOt a chance for abusing DC me and e calling ling me names He Ile looked ao as terrible u as he said this and so 10 aw awfully fully enormous that all aD the boys felt a of 01 fear go 10 through rough t rou them for after all they felt that they deserved ved punishment pw indeed for or their cruelty they had to depend upon the once frail and weak lad whom hom they ther had called for their very lives livet at u w if he left them for in ut instant the moon men would have hafe attacked them promptly pr So they ceased to make JUke suggestions to Douglas for they did not know that he be was wu only joking He turned to the leader of the moon moo men and told toW him that t he be must m at once o once instruct him bim in m mart the theart art of managing the airship and the captain of course coaree showed him how ie i was dove dean The ship wa W moved fee air ili ilif by mean of f an apparatus tits t elegy shu 1 C or turned on tut i an as instant the die power pow r oi of o graviton gra which wog w wis is what makes thing l fail to tie b MMe sines of which aHo V off IDt into the air like fike so many many ny r roe keb The Tle neli Machine chino controlled this mysterious ok w one eh dh h earth knows knoW the leas le a tit airship moved JILom by It means of a il the theman theman theman man behind b the button to get gw p t Douglas Do learned all a H minutes mut s je bw he was very fer G gall U sprig f thin from el ii n li PP k so 10 he ie told toM the ca a I ak Iii while Beran hran Jf ran the er directions although be tOlt it rather hard to press Prell lithe Che button as u his hia awfully large lure He Ee car cov covered co tired ered not DOt only the button b but bu the large Jarge dial that showed the course of 1 a airship Still be he found that he could coId manage ship easily and then he turned her earthward agal and fwd in another hour they thet were hovering hoYer Dg over the world They could see all the oceans oceana and continents al the lath IdI isthmuses muses mu and aid peninsulas just ju t as sa plainly as if it were weN weNa a colored map spread below belo them sad and it wee was a won Xoa wonderful OR dor derf ul lesson in geography But just where they were pointing was wag a land that he lie lad had never read much uch about l because 1118 people eOJ Ie fro from outside 0 are never allowed to 10 enter it This is was w the land of and although h filled with groat mountains it was adorned wane marvelous cities built of pearl ivory and silver 0 This partied particular r part of is andis and andis is a land that no stranger atran er has baa ever fter beard o of still lest less thought of visiting Y li D It Jt t is ie i away behind beJ nd the tM times of course The people of have never heard beard of photographs p telephones to automobiles el carpet car ear carpet pet sweepers canned goods so you yon asey imagine i what wha an excitement wa WIN created by the tho tM them sight Ight m ht of an airship u They shouted in alarm i Some fled led to 10 the ho cellars callers others into eaves caves or crawly crawled tinder puder beds or cover covered co themselves with rugs rup ho hoping g to escape the u eye 10 e ethe if f the monster The ruler of Biff Bif t who is ia called aped the Gost soon toon beard the tM outcry and Mid hurried rpm his hiI i iv palace to 10 tee see what was happening h lc in i his hia i l ad ydo vas na but whoa he hi tl f jd p a few blocks away and ancI coming directly lie palace he hc too was wu thrown into mw a pause paBlO and tried to being old and Dr very rheumatic he not DO walk fast and when he be got lOt back to 10 ISM his door he e found fount that his hi servants had clo closed rl it in fright and aad he le was left trembling b outside with this terrible te Tib thing coming Dc nearer nearer ne ler every moment But as u he stood with fear he be looked up and saw aw the boys sta ring down d wn at the city mv with its beautiful ga Dd houses 00 hou ies of ivory pearl and aad silver u He recognized them as II mortals D er r at atIq least resembling ling Iq huma hurna h beings and nd concluded that t at they 0 ho put pat on i 1 ft fret freet freeta 1 a Quash of Bill Biff and ud stars standing up liP be lw a most profound bow Douglas caW called out Good morning sir I What is this thia place f r This replied the b is Biff BIL a town of u as yon are doubtless aware aw re and nd are ar only guying t ng me meTar Tar Far Far be it from m me replied Douglas Dougl to tD g PI guy y so 10 reverend and appearing an anold old gentleman as you Are le you ou used d to having haf airships airship here her T of Is II that an eo airship r I cried the die in iii 3 Wd enL i 1 I F read veld about them but t I thought they looked like balloons baBoons I INot w Not this thia kind replied Douglas Doug hies This use one was w at made in the moon and aDd Ive Jve a load Wad of at the tile meat mast t com corn moon moett inhabitants in lips hare that t you ever eYer saw Ill rn show h you one He reached down picked up the captain cap raid and MW held k U him hi i out for the ruler of Biff Bif to examine The TIle On O 0 ab was even more amazed at the sight light of the moon man m n than he be had bad been at the ship or the giant Douglas the du 1 1 into the 1 Gas GA Then be he dropped airship au gently WI WIG s sub abs hack back garden where the people come coma around and d fool with wi its ita machinery when w n whey they got over their alarm and all aU of the t e bors boJ bo jumped a d out but Douglas tied every one of tie t tJ e en moon goon n men with cords coda fco bo that they t ey could more moTe neither idler hand band nor foot fooL They set act up the most peculiar cries something ing like lib young puppies for they imagined that they the theto we leers to be eaten ea ten at a once onee as u they r hind bind their i tims aaI before roasting reacting than them The asked of Vf his visitors to enter his palace w where Ue Ite I DOUGLAS D 0 U G DOUG LAS CONQUERS 00 N QU E r T AW oSSA O S SA ARY R Y TJ j l 4 f 0 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