The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-18
VII. THE BEARS IN A BALLOON.

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VII. THE BEARS IN "A BALLOON.
Copyright. 1905 By Seymour Eaton. rights
Tho balloon sailed up above the crowds
And the country fair and beyond the*clouds.
The sky around was clear and blue
The earth below was lost to view. Ss l~s
ossound was heard;: the air was still;
The space about was: too big to fill
With sound or house or town or hill.
Distance was gone and direction too;
The bears had nothing left to dot
There wash It thing to fasten to.
The alone and dazzling bright
Seemed to be laughing at their plight
The first to speak was TEDDY-G:S
''The earth has dropped somewhere said he,
"Fell thru those clouds; I saw it co.
And where it's gone want to know"
"Don't ask me;' said TEDDY-B, -.
II never learned astronomy +.-' @'" H..
We're off for good; dear knows how far;
The sky will have another star. .>> E.. T.
I suppose we'll have an orbit soon
And revove around the sun and moon
And have day and night and spring and fall,
And roll about like rubber ball;
Or play with Jupiter or the planet Mars,
Or ride on comets thru the stars. r. =. .. r..
Scholars will look thru telescopes 81 t..
aHu tell our Welgnl ana count CneSe ropes,
And measure time back to our birth, @,.-@,
And say we re peopled' like the earth" -
"Don't lose your head, said TEDDY-G, -
For here's chart which tells how we :. :
Can steer this ship with greatest ease X
And land at any point please -~~.> - :
The earth's down there, know, somewhere
For<I saw the town and the county fair; =,
A bird ,s-eye view as the clouds went by 81
And covered up the under sky"
The bears sat down to read the books
And to study maps and examine hooks,
And. to learn the way to go up or down,
And how high they were above the town, :.
And how to anchor and the thing to do =
If storm came up and the wind it blew.
It nearly dark when TEDDY-G
Said he ID like to walk around and see
What the sky doing and move his feet
And shake himself and get things to eat.
''We're on short Allowance said TEDDY-B
''Like ship-wrecked sailors out at sea. 20:
You can have five cakes and two chickens legs
And apple pie and six hard-boiled eggs
nd a loaf Of bread and doughnuts three T.
And pound OF nuts and a cup Of teas'' 20. .:
:'fnat's all right,'' said TEDDY-G, n ....~..:-.
''I'l make it do till the night is thru,
Put at breakfast time let this ship-wrecked~crew
Land on planet or a twinkling STAR, II.
Or any place where there's dining car ~
The ali is pure at this skyward height, -.
But it doesn t feed ones Appetite -
They sailed along at a rapid ratej ! -. -.
There were no delays; mo place to wait
The had gone clear out Of sight; /rs7#
The moon was up and the night was bright.
The earth below went sliding by; w. Z>s>.:.
They could see the fields and great big : = -
Where rivers joined; and cities four: ~~~'
With hundred million lights or more.
When TEDDY-B said he'd bet his paw
mat the biggest town Omaha. :*c :
1t grows day and night without rest =
And is the smartest place in the Middle West. :
'We're travelling north,'' said TEDDY-7G. s:
"or north by east, for star see; - :, I
The northern star; the central hub, :" -
learned its place when but cub. '',:sa ~><~
And thus they chatted thru the night, = i. =. >c~
Counting cities that in sight, -: ! - : :
Or climbing up the basket ropes, :. !. i J..
Or viewing the thru telescopes. : : .z@* :.
At: break Of day there in view: - =. !:
pair Of cities and a river, too; -. -.
And waterfalls and parkways wide, >"<s<~ >-.~.~-.
And lax on: cid a.