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"If we can decipher the record," Johnny Coombs said. "But we don't have any clue to their language." "Did you have any trouble understanding what the map had to say?" the Major said quietly. "No...." "I don't think the rest will be much more difficult. They were intelligent creatures. The record will be understandable, all right." He started to fold the map back into a tube again.
They had surreptitiously begun collecting parts for the communicator and were sorting them out on one of the bunks when Roger mentioned the necessity for the special vacuum tube. "How quickly?" asked Astro. Tom explained. "The equipment we have now is strong enough to talk to the Academy, but it'll take about six hours for my voice to reach it.
Now you are probably aware that looking up from the bottom of a deep well or shaft in the daytime, the stars are visible, even in the sunlight. And that is what I purpose doing." "Well, and where is your shaft that you intend looking up through?" inquired Dr. Jones. The Professor significantly laid his hand upon the zinc tube which enveloped the flagstaff.
We distinguished in these festoons a Bignonia of a violet blue, the purple Dolichos, and, for the first time, that magnificent Solandra, the orange flower of which has a fleshy tube more than four inches long.
This was filled with water. A flexible metal tube hung down from the rear. Evidently it carried a constant stream of fresh water. As we gazed we saw intermittent trickles emerging from the bottom of the crystalline case. Point for point the creature's equipment was the same as diving equipment used by men, only it was exactly opposite in function.
The head of the creature is of an unusual shape, as it has a snout with nostrils lengthened into a kind of tube. The skin is of a brownish-olive above, and white below; and is covered with a number of small, hard granules, with some horny tubercular projections among them. After the brood have left the mother's back, the cells again fill up the whole process occupying about eight days.
I obeyed, for what else could I do? Taking the case from my pocket, I placed it in his lean brown hand. An expression of wild exultation crossed his features; the eagle eyes seemed to be burning into my brain. A puff of hot vapour struck me in the face something which was expelled from the mysterious black tube.
These radii are connected at the outer extremities by two bands of flattened wire the whole in this manner forming the framework of the screw, which is completed by a covering of oiled silk cut into gores, and tightened so as to present a tolerably uniform surface. At each end of its axis this screw is supported by pillars of hollow brass tube descending from the hoop.
The bore, it will be seen, has become almost completely closed up, so that there is practically no communication between the hot part of the tube and the combustion chamber. This closing up of the bore is very gradual, and it is in the early stages of this process that erratic firing is likely to occur; sometimes the charge will be successfully fired and sometimes not.
Perhaps in the early days of the war the scene would only have brought tears and tender smiles to worldly eyes. Margaret tried to say something, she scarcely knew what just anything to break the passion of their silence, but the roaring of the train drowned her trembling question. How she hated the swaying and groaning and the rattling of the tube train as it dashed through its confined way!
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