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Updated: June 14, 2025
Galien adds that in the region of hail there was in the air a separation into two layers, the weights of which respectively are as 1 to 2. "Then," says he, "in placing an air-boat in the region of hail, with its sides rising eighty-three fathoms into the upper region, which is much more light, one could sail perfectly." But how to get this enormous air-boat up to the region of hail?
But before the air-boat had risen out of sight, the lights were all out, and the Forest Children sound asleep, snuggled into their moss beds. From then on stops were frequent, and Eric woke at each one. At every Bird Fairy nest at which they stopped, the Tree Mother leaned from the boat and scooped the crusted snow out of the nest.
A party of little girls and boys all in bright colored frocks, purple, orange, green, blue, yellow, were putting the finishing touches on an air-boat they were making. It was built of delicate leaved branches and decorated with wild flowers. A great anchor of dog-tooth violets hung over the sides and kept it on the ground.
"Having reduced the dilation sufficiently for our purposes, we resolved to attempt the working of the balloon before the whole town and to turn it from the east to the north. We saw with pleasure that our machinery answered By the working of the helm, the prow of our air-boat was turned in the direction we desired.
"But, master, where is the woman? Where is the ancient man, J'hungaav, who sailed with you in the air-boat to those upper regions we know not of?" "The woman is well. She awaits in a place we have prepared for you." "It is well. And the ancient man?" Stern thought quickly. To confess the patriarch's death would certainly be fatal to the undertaking.
It is a rare exception to the general rule, and I own I cannot myself understand it." After this conversation I sought to return to the subject which continued to weigh on my heart viz., the chances of escape from Zee. But my host politely declined to renew that topic, and summoned our air-boat.
"We don't want to go home until we have had the surprise!" "Oh, the surprise is up in the branches. My mother is there with her air-boat, waiting to take you all home." The Forest Children clapped their hands and jumped up and down until their sandal-laces that were not already loose and flapping came undone and flapped too.
At a hurried order from Marlowe the gangs quit. A hush fell over the crowd. Kennedy was circling down now until at last the air-boat rested on the water and skimmed along toward the ways. Out on the ways, as far as they were not yet submerged, some men ran, as if to meet him, but Kennedy began signaling frantically again. Though I had not been expecting it, I made it out.
For hanging just above the water on the edge of the sea was a great blue sea-shell air-boat with blue sails; and the Tree Mother stood in it, talking to Helma and Ivra who had run down to the water's edge. The boat and the sails were blue. Tree Mother's gown was blue. The sea and the sky were blue. Tiny white caps feathered the water. Tiny white clouds feathered the sky.
I think the Tree Mother sank down in her air-boat to look in at them and open the door wide, which they had forgotten, so they would have fresh air all night; but it was dark, and the room was shadowy, so perhaps it was only the wind. After all, Mother Helma was not there the next morning, nor the next, nor the next. She did not come back for days and days and days.
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