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But as this had to be lifted up again in order to reach the bottom of the Projectile, more work was to be done than was strictly necessary. Though the labor was not very hard, considering that gravity had as yet scarcely made itself felt, M'Nicholl and Ardan were not sorry to have their little joke at Barbican's expense. The Frenchman began humming "Aliquandoque bonus dormitat Homerus,"
"This thing has gone far enough! Come. Stop your talk, and answer me a few questions. What do you want of this cord, Barbican?" "To describe a parabolic curve!" "And what are you going to do with the ruler, M'Nicholl!" "To help draw a true hyperbola!" "Promise me, Barbican, that you're not going to lasso the Captain!" "Lasso the Captain! Ha! ha! ha!"
Finally, right in the centre of the lunar disc, where the equator intersects the first meridian, can be seen Sinus Medii, the Central Gulf, the common property therefore of all the hemispheres, the northern and southern, as well as of the eastern and western. Into these great divisions the surface of our satellite resolved itself before the eyes of Barbican and M'Nicholl.
"Now I understand why the poor Captain made me no reply all the time, and looked at me with such a hapless woe-begone expression of countenance. The fact is, Barbican, that shock was too much both for M'Nicholl and myself. You are the only man among us whose head is fire-proof, blast-proof, and powder-proof.
In fact, it soon became so brilliant as to dispel in a moment all doubt as to its particular nature. No meteor could present such a perfect shape; no volcano, such dazzling splendor. "The Sun!" cried Barbican. "The Sun?" asked M'Nicholl and Ardan in some astonishment.
In any case, having been put in proper order for immediate use, nothing more now remained to be done till the moment should come for firing them off. "Now then, friends," said M'Nicholl, rubbing his eyes but hardly able to keep them open, "I'm not over fond of talking, but this time I think I may offer a slight proposition."
In a case like this, we can't rely on uncertainties. Therefore, to make sure of not losing our thermometer, we shall fasten it with a string and easily pull it in whenever we like." This advice being adopted, the window was opened quickly, and the instrument was thrown out at once by M'Nicholl, who held it fastened by a short stout cord so that it could be pulled in immediately.
Without light or heat during all that dreary winter, they must freeze stiff like the frogs or become torpid like the bears. I can't imagine how they could get through it otherwise." "I'm glad we're through it anyhow," observed M'Nicholl. "I may at once acknowledge that I felt perfectly miserable as long as it lasted.
"Every man to his taste!" said M'Nicholl; "mine at present is certainly to turn in!" and suiting the action to the word, he coiled himself on the sofa, and in a few minutes his deep regular breathing showed his slumber to be as tranquil as an infant's. Barbican looked at him in a kindly way, but only for a very short time; his eyes grew so filmy that he could not keep them open any longer.
"Don't feel so bad about it, Ardan;" observed M'Nicholl; "though there may be no orb from which gravity is excluded altogether, we shall soon land in one, where it is much less powerful than on the Earth." "You mean the Moon!" "Yes, the Moon.
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