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Show pip Daddy's OMveiii Fdiry Tale jywf graham Bornm THE ECLIPSE "It's worth seeing. Yes, she should be awakened to see it as she'll have something to remember. It's a very unusual ecllpw. These were the speeches Polly heard as I lie whole family seemed to gtitlier bout her und try to wuke her up. "Wuke up, wake up," her father snld. "Wake up, wake up," her mother said. "Wake up, wake up," they nil said. And sleepy though she was she tried to open her eyes as wide as she could to see what till the excitement was about. "It's the eclipse, dearie," her mother said. Well, she didn't know whether she was still asleep when she heard such a strange word. It surely was not a waking-time word. "It's a very remarkable eclipse," her mother said, "und tliat is why we're getting you up In the middle of the night. You ciin go right hack to sleep afterward. You can see It now." She whs so sleepy she couldn't wulk. Her mind seemed asleep too. She couldn't tell what she wns thinking. think-ing. Everything was so confused. Her father carried her. "She's so sleepy she 'enn lmrdly walk," he said. Her brother spoke to her. "Keep your eyes open for Just' a little while," he said. "I've been allowed al-lowed to sit up and watch for It." And then they all gathered around an open window and looked up at the dark sky. It was a very dark sky. It seemed to Polly that it was a sleepy sky. It looked Just the way she felt. It looked as though It Just couldn't mm1 A "Wake Up, Wake Up," They All Said. wake up. That was why. she thought. It looked so blurred and funny. "Isn't It great?" her brother said. "You see," he explained, "something very wondi'rful is happening right now. "The earth Is passing between the moon and the sun and the moon is being be-ing eclipsed that means partly hidden." hid-den." Holly looked. Oh, how hard It was to keep her eyes open, but she blinked as hard as she could and peered out at the funny sky. She thought of the earth passing between be-tween the moon and the sun, and then she begun to think that she must be passing along this way too since she was on the earth and It was the earth which was doing this. . Y'et how could she he putting a shadow over the moon when she was way down here In a house by an open wlnd'fw? And the house wasn't moving. mov-ing. It was very confusing. Siie was glad all the family understood under-stood It. F.ven the word eclipse was too much for her It was simply an Impossible word. She was taken hack to bed at least she knew that must have happened as she woke up In the bed In the morning morn-ing tliough she hadji't remembered being actually taken back to bed. But the next day and the day after that and for some time to come she would say to everyone. "I saw the Vlipse the other night," and they would look astonished for that wonderful tiling hud happened I after midnight. Kven If it' was something too confusing con-fusing to be understood It was nice to boast about. But It wns a pity It had to happen at such a sleepy time. It made it more confusing than ever i that way. |
