The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-03

The next minute they were rushing
I through the air at a speed that would
have made the Empire State express
turn as green through envy as Jorroel
was. II may have been five minutes,
/ but it didn't seem more than that many
/ seconds before they had landed at Har-
rah in the midst Of IN undutating mea-
dow of lovely pink grass. Beautiful
/ butterflies that famed like different
colored lights and that sang more
sweetly than nightingales. flew around
and round in circles until Sandy felt
/ dizzy and said so. Then they turned
and few the other way. He soon
| found out that this thoughtfulness of
others feelings characterized every
/ living thing in Harrah, which he imag-
ined to be Mars, although he had no
means of knowing.
All around them globular dwellings
/ full of windows fioated in the air and
Jorroel told him that this was his ma
! tive town and was called Jarratol.
Want to see where you came from ?''
he asked Sandy.
Sure said Sandy. / am sorry to
say that he had several slang phrases
! that he would be glad to drop when he
grew older and found how burr-like
they were and as .usless as burrs too.
You can wait until night and look
at it through a faralan. Its as yellow
as my lips. Say, you must be hungry
after your long ride. Come up to our
house and read some dinner"
Read it, said Sandy. You mean
eat it,
Jorroel burst into a 'shrill laugh that
sounded like the noise of a katydid.
I'VE eat what we want to learn said
he, but we read to keep ourselves from
starving. aWhatll you read?"
Some candy and pie" said Sandy at
venture.
That's good choice. 1 think. Come
up and We'll get them"
A few feet above where they were
standing was a round house, not unlike
bubble, and like a bubble it fioated
hither and thither not being fastened
to the ground and yet not going very
far i'll any direction. Jorroel explained
that the ground was so fertile that
they did not like to waste it by using
it to set houses upon. so the houses
were all built in the air. Sandy found
that he could walk upon the air to it
as easily as he could treah solid ground
on earth, and he accompanied his friend
to it, A pretty green woman, not
much bigger than Jorroel and wear
ing cloak made of crimson, cob
webby stuff, sat at a table reading
book IS
Mamma. I've been to Sush at last.
l knew | could do it if / made UP my
mind hard enough. And I've brought
back a little boy from there and he's
hungry and wants to read some din
ner."
Jorroel's mother came over and
rubbed Sandy's cheeks, which seemed
10 be the Harrahian way of saluting
one. Then she said, without being sur
prised that he had some so far: You
must be hungry. Read whatever you
want You'll find the books on the
shelf there
Sandy stepped over to a book case
and saw a number of books in English.
One said roast beef, another said lem
on pie. another was marked potatoes,
and still others bore names that he
had never heard of before, and were
probably foods that were peculiar to
Harrah It told how lemon pie was
made, who invented it, and so on, and
by the time Sandy had finished the ar
ticle he felt just the same as if he had
eaten pie. but with this important
difference-he hadn't had the fun of
eating it.
After lemon pie one doesn't care
much about roast beef, so Sandy didn't
read any of that.
1t was growing dark Sandy glanced
out Of the window, and saw the earth
just rising and flooding Harrah witt
lovely earth-light. -