text: At the Earth's Core
  
  By 
  
  Edgar Rice Burroughs 
  
  PROLOGUE 
  
  In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story.  Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London. 
  You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower, or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King. 
  The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!--it is all that saved him from exploding--and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.
tokens: At the Earth 's Core By Edgar Rice Burroughs PROLOGUE In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story . Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when , in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance , I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London . You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower , or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King . The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!--it is all that saved him from exploding -- and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship , gold medals , and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin , cold air of his arctic atmosphere .
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