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The girl, flushed with excitement of the novel situation, fully appreciating the importance of what was about to occur, and looking more charming than before, stood at one side of the principal apartment. Directly facing her were the interpreters, and the rest of us, all with ears intent and eyes focused upon Aina, stood in a double row behind them.
Peering cautiously through the vistas in various directions, we ascertained our location with respect to the wall of the building. Like all the structures which we had seen on Mars, it was composed of polished red metal. "Where is the entrance?" inquired Mr. Edison, in a whisper. "Come softly this way, and look out for the sentinel," replied Aina.
Just as she said that she felt a large glass of milk between her fingers, and at the same time Aina cried out, 'Lisa! Lisa! I have a glass of milk in my hand! Isn't it queer? The girls, however, were very hungry, so they ate and drank with a good appetite. When they had finished Aina yawned, stretched out her arms and said: 'Oh, if only we had a nice soft bed to sleep on now!
Then Aina noticed that a sparrow sitting on the fence was just ready to pounce on the poor little worm, so she took up the leaf, carried it out into the wood and hid it under a raspberry bush where the greedy sparrow could not find it. Yes, and what more is there to tell about a raspberry worm? Who would give three straws for such a miserable little thing?
'Yes, said Aina, 'if we had only two good meat sandwiches now. As she said that, she felt something in her hand, and when she looked down, she saw a large sandwich of bread and chicken, and at the same time Lisa said: 'How very queer! I have a sandwich in my hand. 'And I, too, said Aina. 'Will you dare to eat it? 'Of course I will, said Lisa. 'Ah, if we only had a good glass of milk now!
Then I saw Colonel Smith's face turn livid, and at the same instant heard the whirr of his disintegrator, while Sydney Phillips, forgetting the deadly instrument he carried in his hand, sprung madly toward the brute who had kicked Aina, as if he intended to throttle him, colossus that he was.
We learned from Aina that there must be stores of provisions in the neighborhood of the palace, because it was the custom of the Martians to lay up such stores during the harvest time in each Martian year in order to provide against the contingency of an extraordinary drought.
'Yes, when we had cleaned the raspberries so carefully, said Lisa. 'It crept out from that very large one, put in Aina. 'And supposing some one had eaten the raspberry, said Lisa. 'Then they would have eaten the worm, too, said Aina. 'Well, what harm? said Otto. 'Eat a worm! cried Lisa. 'And kill him with one bite! murmured Aina. 'Just think of it! said Otto laughing.
I made a very large well in the desert of Āina. The frame-work and the doors were cut out of cedar, and the bolts thereof and their sockets were of copper. I cut out large sea-going boats, with smaller boats before them, and they were manned with large crews, and large numbers of serving-men.
'Come, let us go to the wood and pick, said Lisa. 'Yes, let us, said Aina. 'You take the yellow basket and I will take the green one. 'Don't get lost, and come back safely in the evening, said the big sister. 'Greetings to the raspberry worm, said Otto, mockingly. 'Next time I meet him I shall do him the honour of eating him up. So Aina and Lisa went off to the wood.
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