Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-15
cHPATER II-continued.

NJ The roof of the enclosure was a
& solid glass about four or five inches
n In thickness, and beneath this were
several hundred large eggs, perfectly
round and snowy white The eggs
were nearly uniform in size, being
about two and one-half feet in diane
ter.
Five or six had already Matched
and the grotesque caricatures which
sat blinking In the sunlight were
enough to cause me TO doubt my san
ity. They seemed mostly head, with
little scrawny bodies, long necks and
six legs. or. as l afterward learned,
two legs and two arms, with an inter
'mediary pair of limbs which could be
used at will either as arms or legs.
Their eyes were set at the extreme
sides of their heads a tride above the
center and protruded in such man
ner that they could be directed either
forward or back and also independent
ly of each other, thus permitting this
queer animal to look in any direction.
or In two directions at once, without
the necessity of turning the head
There was no hair on their bodies,
(which were of a very light yellow
green color. In the adults, as l was
to learn quite soon, this color deepens
to an olive green and is darker in the
male than in the female.
The iris of the eyes is blood red as
I'm Albinos, while the pupil is dark
a The eyeball itself is very white. as
u are the teeth. These latter add most
fferocious appearance to an otherwise
fearsome and terrible countenance, as
( the lower tusks curve upward to sharp
points which end about where the eyes
of earthly human beings are located
q The wilderness of the teeth is not that
of ivory. but of the snowiest and most
cleaning of china.
! was given but little time to specu-
late on the wonders of my new dis
covery. had seen that the eggs were
Il in the process of Matching, and as
+ stood watching the hideous little mon
sters break from their shells failed
" to note the approach of score Of
f'tull-grown Martians from behind me-
They might have captured me easily
but their intentions were far more
sinister. 1t was the rafting of the
Announcements of the foremost war
o. rior which warned me- Had not the
life of the leader of the party swung
liOul It's ldSlthibES DtSlut HIS Sduule
in such a way as to strike against the
~ putt of his great metal-shod spear I
should have snuffed out without ever
IA knowing that death was near me. But
the little sound caused me to turn
II and there upon me, not ten feet from
my breast was the point of that huge
n spear, spear forty feet long. tipped
with cleaning metal, and held low at
I little devils had been watching.
4 But how puny and harmless they
now looked beside this huge and ter
rife incarnation of hnte, of vengeance,
and of death. The man himself, for
such may call him, was fully fifteen
F. Get in height and, on earth, would
3have weighed some four hundred
..% pounds.
aAnd his mount How can earthly
words describe 1t II lowered ten feet
4 at the shoulder; had four legs on
il either side; a broad fiat tail larger at
1 a the tip than at the root. and which
E$ 1t held straight out behind while run
: Mug: n gaping mouth which split its
head from Its snout to its long. mas
sive neck.
yH like its master It was entirely de-
II void of hair, but was OF dark slate
!! color and exceeding smooth and CLOS
VI So. Its belly was white and its legs
III shaded from the slate of It's shoulders
III and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet.
M 'Unarmed and naked as ! was, the
u first law of nature manifested Itself
a in the only possible solution of my
Immediate problem, and that was to
4 get out of the vicinity Of the point
n Of the charging spear. Consequently
II i gave q very earthly and at the same
VI time superhuman leap TO reach the
H top of the Marian incubator, for such
ri Ihad determined II must be.
III Nv effort was crowned with sue
~ cess which appalled, me no less than 1t
H seemed to surprise the Marian war
riors. for 1t carried me fully thirty
|% feet into the air and landed me hun
NJ dsed feet from my pursuers and on
the opposite side of the enclosure.
/ alighted upon the soft moss easily
ard without mishap and turning saw
my enemies lined up along the further