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Show j ADVENTURES OF TEE TWINS fry OLIVE ROBERT BARTO Finally the Twins, each holding tiw Magical Mushroom bj an arm. got o 1 lose to ih- moon tliat It looked as Big U a hoosc. Well. Nancy and Nick finally got' started on their trip to the moon, j The magic Green Shoes whisked ' them off lip through the nil over tree' 1 tops and hills and mountains, past Clouda and stars and comets, until finally they were so high that the 'earth Itself looked almost like another an-other star below them. Or rather it , looked like another round moon Now I'm going to toil you a funny I thing, my dears. When you're on the earth you look up at the moon. I or over at It, depending upon where And when you're on the moon ' you look up at the earth or over at it, or down nt It. depending on where j it Is. It's a sort of a game of hide ' and seek that the earth and the I moon play, bobbing about the Way ' thoy do, and that Is the reason that sometimes the moon looks little like a sickle and sometimes like half a pie and sometimes like a silver dollar. dol-lar. Because the earth gets In the moon's way and cuts off part of its light. It's as easy to understand as In come tax, my dears, and something that neither you nor I need to Ubther about. But I Just wanted to toll you that, although we can only sce a weenty slice of the moon sometimes, some-times, It really la all thore all the time. t lierw Ise I'm afraid Mr. Reera-bout. Reera-bout. the Man-in-the-Moon. would 1 q las his footing and fall off. Finally the Twins, each holding the Magical Mushroom by the arm pot so close to the moon that it looked as big as a house. Closer and loser they came until It looked as big as' a mountain. nid finally they were so near that the"y couldn't sce all of it at once. "Ooooo:" shivered Nancy, "I'm cold. I wish I'd brought my coat." "So do I." remarked Nick. "Oh. a little maple will fix that up." comforted the Mushroom. "Mr. F'eerabout will sprinkle you v.-itb some of his star-dust powder Mid you'll soon le as warm as flap-jack?. 1 Why, here wo are!" (To Re Continued. |