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Show comi&MT it vhtih Ntwmi ukon SKY CHATTER "My seasons," Saturn told Harry, "are like yours In their degrees of warmth, mild weather, and so forth only every one of my seasons lasts seven years." "Do you mean seven years of winter win-ter and seven years of spring and seven years of summer and so on?" asked Harry. "Just what I mean," said Saturn. "Glad you get the Idea at once." "Do you find anyone grumbling over having a season last so long? Now if we have too long a winter or too long a spring people grumble." "I never hear complaints." Harry had hoped from the way In which he had put his question that Saturn would give himself away and answer that having no people on his planet there could be no complaints. But Saturn's eyes twinkled as he answered, an-swered, for he knew what was In Harry's Har-ry's mind. However, Harry was just about certain that there was no life here. From the look of what he could see he could tell that It was very hot and that It was not like his earth where so many creatures lived. It was the strangest thing but at this moment Cosmo arrived with the . plane. How well they were going to guard their secrets! Harrj said good--by to Saturn hurriedly for Cosmo said they mustn't be late. "Don't forget to look at my rings through a telescope next time you get a chance," Saturn called out. "Sorry I couldn't have shown them to you here, but on account of going around me " Harry did not hear the end of the sentence. They were flying once more. He made himself quite at home in the plane now. He looked at some of the charts as he ate sandwiches. "We'll Just whiz by Uranus," said Cosmo. "He's next to the most distant planet and you can't see him without rp, " " ,,KV They Flew by Uranus. a telescope. You're always asking about life on the planets. Of course they wonder most about Mars and a little about Venus, but I will tell you that there's no life on Uranus nor on Neptune. Both are too hot. Stars are also too hot. "Uranus was named after an ancient an-cient god. A brilliant man named William Herschel discovered him but was too modest to have the planet named after himself so chose the name of an old god instead." "If I ever did anything like discovering discov-ering a planet I'm sure I would want It named after me," Harry said, "al-thought "al-thought I'm not strong for conceited people." They flew by Uranus, looking out at It from the windows of the plane. It seemed very large from their view of It so close at hand and then the pilot went In the direction of Neptune. "Neptune was discovered less than one hundred years ago by an Englishman English-man named John Couch Adams, but he named this planet after Father Neptune. About the same time, too, a French astronomer named Severrler discovered this planet." "Have either of these planets a moon?" Harry asked. "Yes, Neptune has a moon to keep him company way on In the sky. And Uranus has four little ones." "Better than none, I should say," Harry remarked. "But now we must visit the stars. Oh, there is so much to be seen. Your Solar system amounts to so little when we think how much else there is such countless stars, and other sky families." |
