Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-05-06
cHPATER II-continued.

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The roof of the enclosure was a
bold glass about four or five inches
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 dame
her
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 | afterward learned,
two legs and two arms. with an inter-
anediary pair of limbs which could be
nsed at will either as arms or legs.
Their eyes were set at the extreme
bides of their heads a trife above the
renter and protruded in such a man.
Der that thew could be directed either
Forward or back and also independents
BIZ Of each other, thus permitting this
hueer animal to look in any direction.
pr in two directions at once, without
she 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
10 learn quite soon, this color deepens
10 an olive green and is darker in the
male than in the female.
The iris of the eyes is blood red, as
"a Albinos. while the pupil is dark.
he eyeball itself is very white. as
Pre the teeth. These latter add a most
erociOus appearance to an otherwise
4earsOme and terrible countenance, as
Pie lower tusks curve upward to sharp
points which end about where the eyes
~ earthly human beings are located.
81 ne Wilderness Of the teeth is not thai
~ ivory, but of the snowiest and most
sReaming of china.
/ was given but little time to specu-
Gate on the wonders of my new dis
seoVery. had seen that the eggs were
"a the process of Matching, and as 1
stood watching the hideous little mon
sBters break from their shells l failed
r. note the approach of a score of
8ull-grown Martians from behind me.
They might have captured me easily,
put their intentions were far more
sinister. 1t was the rattling of the
requirements of the foremost war;
Rior which warned me. Had not the
fiile Of the leader of the party swung
prom its fastenings beside his saddle
n such 2 way as to strike against the
putt of his great metal-shod spear |
EholId have snuffed ont without ever
showing that death was near me. But
Ehe little sound caused me to tuIh.
Fnd there upon me, not ten feet from
Ehy breast, was the point of that huge
Rpear' a spear forty feet long, tipped
Fun cleaning metal, and held low at
Inc side of mounted replica of the
Fitue devils I had been watching.
But how puny and harmless they
pow looked beside this huge and ter
Flhc incarnation Of hate, of vengeance,
Fnd of DEATH The man himself, for
2ueh may cali him, was fully fifteen
pet IN height and; on earth. would
nave weighed some four hundred
pounds.
and his mountl How can earthly
words describe It! 1t lowered ten feet
II the shoulder; had four legs On
inner side; broad fat tail. larger at
ne up than at the root, and which
held straight out behind while run
ping gaping mouth which split its
read from its snout to its long, mas
five neck.
Like its master It was entirely de-
GA Of hair, but was Of a dark slate
o'oF and exceeding smooth and CLOS
II us belly was white and its legs
N"oed from the slate of its shoulders
~ " HIps TO a vivid yellow at the feet.
charmed and naked as / was. the
., law Of nature manifested itself
me only possible solution of my
-'i'ediate problem, and that was TO
1 our Of the vicinity cf the point
,5 ,lIs charging spear. Consequently
s'Fe q very earthly and 1t the same
Superhuman leap to reach the
/ 81 VI me Marian incubator, for such
ny determined It must be.
' EFFORT was crowned with a sue
- - which appalled, me no less than il
- - 10 surprise the Marian war;
-. Ior It carried me fuzzy thirty
- '1to the'air and landed me a hun
r. Iee' from my pursuers and on
opposite side of the enclosure.
"a a-Is,ted upon the soft moss easily
T. ~.li'out mishap. and turning saw
us'lles lined up along the further