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Into the patty-dish, so they could be readily located, were placed the bits of wire, the tiny fragments of silk gauze to serve as breech clouts, and a generous dab of termite-paste; and the two men stepped inside the glass dome to share the fate that, the night before, had been the dog's. The bell was lowered around them. They watched the inventor step to the switch and pull it down....
Let's see, what had I better carry you in?" It was decided with a lack of forethought later to be bitterly regretted that an ordinary patty-dish of the kind in which restaurants serve butter, would make as good a conveyance as anything else.
It was like a nightmare picture of a frozen bad-lands, split here and there by six-feet-broad, unfathomable chasms which were the cracks in the flooring. "Where's the patty-dish?" queried Jim. Dennis gazed about. "We were standing right over it when the reducing process started.... Oh, there it is!" Far off to the right an enormous, shallowly hollowed plateau caught their eyes.
Jim knew he could not clamber into that great plateau; he was too exhausted. But the necessity was spared him. The patty-dish scooped down under him, uprooting huge trees, digging up square yards of earth all around him. He was flung from his feet to roll helplessly beside the unconscious Dennis, as men and earth and all were shifted from the dish's rim to its center.
They knew they were riding in a car; but they couldn't see the car. All they could see was the black cliff that was the seat-cushion behind them. The world had disappeared hidden in its bigness; the world, indeed, was just at present a patty-dish. Somehow they endured the ride.
Matt had carried them out of the building, and had set the patty-dish on the black leather seat of his automobile. There was a distant thundering, as though all the worlds in the universe but Earth were being dashed to pieces. That was the motor starting. And then, as the car moved off, Jim and Dennis realized their mistake in choosing a patty-dish to ride in!
Jim saw the sun blotted out swiftly, saw a huge, pinkish-gray wall swoop down between him and Denny, and the deadly horde of termites pursuing them. Then he saw another pinkish-gray wall, in which was set something a shallow, regular, hollowed plateau that looked familiar. The patty-dish in which he and Denny had been carried to this place of death and horror.
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