The Snowflake herald., 1921-02-25
Observation-Disclosures
Hlll lll.,,s lIrisbt. 1920 a. Q. McOlurs y Coz
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,bat the ceremony, if it could
,,n3fod by such name, was over,
be a',~Ei ,oEing out Sola found her in
'oa abarfot 5r with hideous little crea-
on ... held tightly in her arms.
iu.g ,rork of rearing young, green
~ .,.oe consists solely in teaching
N'''' talk and to use the weapons
'.'m fare with which they are load
o. wa" ,'n.n from the very first year of
60 uJ rras Coming from eggs in which
''" have lain for five years. the
u': of Incubation they step forth
.',o tbo world perfectly developed ex
N'U ~ - size Entirely unknown to
gI ,. own mothers. who. in turn, would
% ,', dificuIty in pointing out the ia
u.~ ..rs with any degree Of accuracy,
rr 'D, are the common children Of the
D, ,mnnity. and their education de
,o,, oIro. npon the females who chance
" confure them as they leave the in
gbator.
De- careful selection the Martians
.a. only the hardest specimens Of
.seb s species and with almost super
.a+,rol FORESIGHT they regulate the
s,,tb rate IN merely Offset the loss BY
,.o~ each adult Marian female
wines forth about thirteen eggs each
.oor and those which NEE ha SIZE
norbt and specific gravity e IS are
llden in the rpcesses of some subter
..naan vault where the temperature
i too low for Incubation Every year
those eggs are carefully examined by
cornciI of twenty chieftains, and all
brt about one hundred of the most
osrfoct are destroyed out Of each
roarIy supply. AT the end of five
roars about five hundred almost per-
foct eggs have been chosen from the
,boDsands BROUGHT forth These are
then nlaced in the almost alright in
m.grors 10 ne haiched BY the suns
nvs after period of another five
yars
The Incuhators are built in remote
aanesses. where there is little or no
likelihood Of their being discovered
Gy otler tribes. The result Of such
catastrophe would mean no children
in The community for another five
years. | was later to witness the re
suits Of the discovery Of an alien incu-
laror
SaIa's duties were now doubled, as
she was compelled to care for the
young Marian as well as for me, but
neither one Of us required much at
entiOn. and as we were both about
equally advanced In Marian educa
lon SoIa took it upon herself to train
US together.
Her prize consisted in a male about
four feet tall very strong and phys.
Ica.y perfect; also. he learned quick
y and We had considerable amuse-
mont at least | did over the keen
rivalry we displayed Tie Martian
language, as ! have said. is extremely
simple and in week I could make
all my wants snowr and understand
nearly everything that was said to me
Likewise, under S0la's tuielage, de
wo0ed my roIena bic powers so tha
! shortly could sense practically every
thing that went on around me
The third day after the incubator
ceremony we sci forth toward home.
Dbl scarcely had the head of The pro
cpSSIon debouched into the open
ground before the city than orders
we're given for an immediate and
nasty return as though trained for
Years in this particular evolution. the
green Martians melted like mist into
Ioe spacious doorways of The nearby
OujaIngs until in less than three
u'h0eS the entire cavalcade Of
uarols' maS'odons and mounted war
'oS was nowhere to be seen.
SoIa and had entered a building
upon the front of the city. in fact. the
N'e one in which | had had my en-
"lhler with the apes. and. wishing to
p What had caused the sudden re-
upa'' mounted to an upper floor and
pgPd from the window ont over the
,a"ey and the hills beyond; and there
saw the cause Of their sudden sour
9uS 10 cover. A huge craft. long.
Wv ana gray painted, swung slowly
I'VE, 'ne crest of tie nearest hill Fol
"''ng i came another. and another.
Gnu another until twenty of them,
""E'ng low above the ground, sailed
'%"'y and majestically toward us.
zach carried strange banner
"u'is Hom stem to stern above the
pleF works and upon the prov of
,' was PAINTED some odd device that
sLa'led g,led IN the sunlight and showed
willy even at the distance at which
we're from the vessels. / could see
ss su'es crowding the forward decks
m, upper works of the aircraft.
s,,s, g,ller they had discovered us or
dt rp' We're looking at the deserted
ho, could not say but in any event
mda leceNed a rude reception, for
gro. s,'y and without warning the
mIa martan warriors fred terrific
hgs from the windows of the build
vbioh 'aeng the little valley across
hn y llie great Ships were 50 peace-