tain-top, the inventor looking through a
tube, the comet-like streak of fire above
them: the opening of a highroad through
Space,--the first step towards a federation
of the heavenly bodies.

The record to go down to posterity!

Yet old Earth had still her individual
romance of seedtime and harvest, sun
and storm, peril and deliverance.

Emblematically depicted these were in
the pearl strip of a girl, with a winsome
reflection of Andrew's thistle-burr in her
speech. Born "far awa' in bonnie Scotland",
the thistle and America's goldenrod
blent their purple and gold upon her
young shoulders; there was an idealized
plow, representing the peaceful agricultural
calling of her father,--and a jump
from peace to peril in the primitively
symbolized scene of a shipwreck through
which she had been with him when crossing
the Atlantic in a sailing vessel.

"We had all to take to the boats, you
see," said Jennie Mclvor, " for the ship
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