Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-13

git in my eyes" she remarked with a
shver.
'Shet your eyes then" said Mr. Bobs.
Drusilla did more than that, she held her
breath. Then. with Whit of dampness
on her face, she found herself inside the
bubble. She turned to see where and how
she got in, but she was so surprised at the
View that presented itself that she fairly
gasped with establishment. Away off in the
distance she could see somebody that re-
semhled Mr.. Bohs. but he seemed to be
hanging in the air heels upward. Not far
from him was his house; and that. too, was
upside down. BY some curious freak of
perspective the house and its surroundings.
including Mr.. Bobs. presented picture not
larger than your thumbnail.
Il didn't know / sech a mighty
jumper" she said to herself.
Then she looked around for Buster John
and Sweetest Susan, and saw them some
distance away They were evidently as
much puzzled she was. The bubble no
longer seemed to be a bubble. Viewed from
the outside, it had appeared to be no larger
than a small house. In the inside, however,
as DruSilla remarked. IL was as big all
out doors. They walked about timidly at
first for fear of breaking the bubble, hut
they soon forgot all about that precaution.
They seemed to be in wide and perfectly
level feld-a field with shining floor.
Over this floor the many-hued colors of the
rainbow chased one another necessarily,
wriggling twisting, whrling. The children
watched this display until Drusilla made
remark that had astonishing results.
Il know whar at she said: dish yer
place is whar dey make rainbows. You kin
see UNI plattin' UNI now.
At this both Buster John and Sweetest
Susan laughed aloud: whereupon the rain
bow cOlors seemed to be shattered into
thousands Of fragments. and they ran
about on the floor, shaken into all sorts of
disturbed shapes. Almost curious as
this spectacle were the wonderful echoes
that took up the sound OF the children's
laughter, carrying IT away and bringing 1t
violin nd
children seemed to be laughing. sometimes
close at hand, and then far away.
Drusilla was alarmed Il done tot you
all bout putin yo' heads in all kinder
holes an traps" she said under her breath
You may call dis a bubble eff you wanter;
but faint no mo bubble dan I'm bub-
Bile. Look over yo' head; does yo' see any
bubble-Skin frame, er hide, er whatso-
never you may call it? No, you don't.
Stidder dat, yo see two suns a-shining.'
done promise myself when We went und
dat spring dat / want gwine let yo drag
me In no mo places. An yit, here l Is!
You done drag me in here, an now yo got
ter drag me out-ef | ever is ter git out
why. there's nothing to do but to break
the bubble" Buster John stoutly asserted.
SHOW me whar dey's any bubble" cried
Drusila. ''Yo' don't see none, an don't
see none. We're in a rainbow factry, an
we better git out 70 ii thunders."
Drusillas considerations led the children
to look around them more carefully than
they had done. and even buster John was
compelled to admit that he could see moth
ing like the walls Of a bubble, If walls they
may be called.
One fact that disturbed them more than
any other was that they could see no hori-
ION line. The horizon exists only IN the i'm
agination, but it plays a very important
part in our actual experience. 1t provides
q boundary a limit. But Il was absent
now. and its absence, together with the
fact that two separate and distinct suns
appeared to be shining overhead, gave
weird aspect to this new landscape, or, to
be more exact, the bubble -scape. And
while the shimmering, seething, whirlng,
rainbow colors We're beautiful to behold.
they began to add to the confusion after
while.
In the midst of it all Drusilla sneezed
not once but twice. She tried hard to keep
the sneezes back, to 'hol 'em in," she
said. but they had to come. and when they
did come, they seemed to shake the founda-
ton Of things, and the sound of 10000
sneezes was heard in the air The two suns