Blandina sez holdin' onto my tabs, "From the bowels of the earth up to the vaulted heavings!" I said tabs, but I meant tab, for Josiah had holt of the other with an almost frenzied grasp, and sez he, "Where will we go next, Samantha ?" And I sez, "Id'no, mebby to the moon or Mars." And Blandina in trembling axents sez, "I wish I wuz safe at Mars." Her ma is old but got her faculties.

And Josiah sez with chatterin' teeth and quaverin' voice as he looked down from the dizzy hite onto Paris, "If I git through this alive I shall be glad to tell the brethren about it." Far below us lay the illuminated city, for it wuz night, and a beautiful seen but sort o' melancholy.

And sure enough, as if to prove my words true, here at the very top of the tower wuz an air-ship on which we took flight through the boundless fields of air.

Paris died on our vision, then we floated over many cities and harbors, up the English Channel, anon the lights of London are passed and we are high up above the ocean.
Weird and wild is the seen, the moon comes up, black clouds rise, and the voice of the winds is heard, then the rumbling of thunder and the forked lightning darts its baleful glare at us.
Josiah whispers, "Samantha, have you got on your gold beads ?" [Illustration] I wear 'em under my collar but most always take 'em off in a thunder storm not wantin' to be struck in my neck.

And I seen him furtively gittin' ready to throw away his jack-knife.