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And the old man, sitting there on the moon-mountain, nodded as much as to say that Jack was quite right. Now the sleigh reached the top of the hill just where it touches the sky. Surely there they would stop. But no "This sleigh can run on air just as well as on snow," the odd little driver explained.
The meteoric rise in the price of shares in the moon-mountain project of the Cacklogallinians is no greater than the actual rise in prices of shares during the South Sea Bubble, when, between April and July, 1720, shares rose from £120 to £1,020.
Thus the gypsies say of an unmarried woman who becomes pregnant, "She has smelt the moon-flower" a flower believed to grow on the so-called moon-mountain and to possess the property of impregnating by its smell. Ploss and Bartels, Das Weib, bd.
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