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"And will the Thunder Bird really lay
its egg upon the moon? Such a hard egg,
too! Will it--really--drop a pound
weight of steel upon the head of the Man
in the Moon?... Oh! de-ar Mammy
Moon--what a shock she'll get."
The girl, the fifteen-year-old Camp Fire
Girl--all but sixteen now--to whom
Mammy Moon had been the fairy foster-mother
of her childhood, ever since she
lay, wakeful, in her little cot, looking up
at that silvery face of a burnt-out satellite,
picturing it the gate of Heaven and her
mother's spirit as bathed in the soft, lunar
radiance behind it, caught her breath
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