. Andiron tales . ker, and get aride, eh? Im ready, said Tom eagerly. Where do we start? Theres the station up on the hill. Its only about 700 can walk it in a year, said Righty. I move we take this cloud thats coming up, said the winded. Tom looked in the direction in which the Bellows had pointed,and, sure enough, there was a cloud coming slowly along, shaped verymuch like a trolley car, and on the front of it, as it drew nearer, thelad was soon able to discern the funny little figure of a Brownie actingas motorman. Why, its really a trolley! he cried. Certainly it is! la
. Andiron tales . ker, and get aride, eh? Im ready, said Tom eagerly. Where do we start? Theres the station up on the hill. Its only about 700 can walk it in a year, said Righty. I move we take this cloud thats coming up, said the winded. Tom looked in the direction in which the Bellows had pointed,and, sure enough, there was a cloud coming slowly along, shaped verymuch like a trolley car, and on the front of it, as it drew nearer, thelad was soon able to discern the funny little figure of a Brownie actingas motorman. Why, its really a trolley! he cried. Certainly it is! laughed Righty. Didnt you know that?When you have watched the moon from your window at home andseen constant lines of clouds passing up to it and stopping beforeits face night after night what did you suppose they did it for? Fun?I guess not. Theyre clever people up here, these moonfolk are,and they make use of everything going. Theyve taken these electricclouds and turned em into a sort of Sky Traction Company, and. BUG UBR- They Reach the Crescent Moon 69 instead of letting em travel all around the universe doing nothingand raising thunder generally, some of the richer Brownies haveformed a company to control them. By this time the cloud had reached the point where our littleparty stood, and the motorman, in response to the Bellows signal,brought it to a standstill. Step lively, please, the conductor cried from the rear end. Tom and the two Andirons and the Poker and Bellows clamberedaboard. The conductor clanged a bell. The motorman turned his wheeland the cloud moved rapidly on. And what a queer crowd of folks there were on board thatstrange trolley cloud. Tom had never seen such an interestinggroup before. CHAPTER VIII. On the Trolley Cloud. AS I stated at the end of the last chapter, the travelers Tom andhis companions encountered upon the Trolley cloud were awonderful lot. In the first place, the whole situation wasstrange. Here was, in fact, a perfect car, made of what at
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