The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-29

seemed to surprise the Martfan war riors, for it carried me fully thirty feet into the air and landed me hun dred feet from my pursuers and on the opposite side of the enclosure.
 I alighted upon the soft moss easily and without mishap, and turning saw my enemies lined up along the further wall. Some were surveying me with expressions which I afterWard diScOV- cred marked extreme astonishment, and the others were evidently satis- flying themselves that I had not mo- tested their young.
 They were conversing together in low tones, and gesticulating and point ing toward me. Their discovery that I had not harmed the little Martians and that I was unharmed must have caused them to look upon me with less ferocity; but, as I was to learn later, the thing which weighed most in my favor was my exhibition of hurdling.
 While the Martians are immense, their bones are very large and they are muscled only in proportion to the gravitation which they must overcome.
 The result is that they are infinitely less agile and less powerful, in pro- portion to their weight than an Earth man, and I doubt that were one of them suddenly to be transported to Earth he could lift his own weight from the ground; in fact, I am con- vfnced that he could not do so.
 My feat, then, was as marvellous up on Mars as it would have been upon Earth, and from desiring to annihilate me they suddenly looked upon me as a wonderful discovery to be captured and exhibited among their fellows.
 I noted that each was armed with several other weapons in addition to the huge spear which I have described. The weapon which caused me to de- eide against an attempt at escape by flight was what was evidently rifle of some description and which 1 felt, for some reason, they were peculiarly efficient in handling.
 These rifles were of a white metal stocked with wood, which I learned later was a very light and intensely hard growth much priZed on Mars, and entirely unknown to us denizens of Earth. The metal of the barrel is an alloy composed principally of aluminium and steel which they have learned to temper to a hardness far exceeding that of the steel with which we are familiar. The weight of these rifles is comparatively little, and with the small caliber, explosive, radium prOjectfles which they use and the great length of the barrel, they are deadly in the extreme and at ranges which would be unthinkable on Earth. The theOretic effective radius of this rifle is three hundred miles, but the best they can do in actual service when equipped with their wireless finders and sighters is but a tritie over two hundred miles,
 The Martians, after conversing for a short time, turned and rode away in the direction from which they had come, leaving one of their number alone by the enclosure. When they had covered perhaps two hundred yards they halted and turning their mounts toward us sat watching the warrior by the enclosure.
 When his force had come to halt he dismOunted, threw down his spear and small arms and came around the end of the incubator toward me en- tireIy unarmed and as naked as I, except for the ornaments strapped up on his head. limbs and breast
 When he was within about fifty feet of me he uncIaspod ;in enormous met al armIpt and holding it toward mo in the open palm of his hand addressed me in a clear resonant voice, but In Il lHngna%0. it is needless to SNN
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