There goes another blast. ", "How do we know there's eleven hundred and one, Sandy, when they all go off at once?--and yet we certainly do know. ", "Oh, a LOT of people WE never heard of before--the shoemaker and horse-doctor and knife-grinder kind, you know--clodhoppers from goodness knows where that never handled a sword or fired a shot in their lives--but the soldiership was in them, though they never had a chance to show it.

", "Babies the same. No time fooled away; nobody straggling in after the curtain's up.

says I; "it's a city. ", "No, but I ain't. I could see I was going considerable to looard of the bush, so I worked my starboard wing slow and went ahead strong on the port one, but it wouldn't answer; I could see I was going to broach to, so I slowed down on both, and lit. His friends begged him to take them with him. ", "Of course not. That was plenty for me. It is a mighty sour pill for us all, my friend - even the modestest of us, let alone the other kind, that think they are going to be received like a long-lost government bond, and hug Abraham into the bargain. ", "Don't break my heart," says I; "I'm getting low-spirited enough already. Wishing is quicker work than travelling. How are you going to have a republic under a king? ", "It is manners to go in full dress. Oh, no--hardly ever more than a couple. ", "No; a body can't bring his rank up here with him. ", "Look here," says I, "do you know what you're doing? I wouldn't be used to such grand people as the patriarchs and prophets, and I would be sheepish and tongue-tied in their company, and mighty glad to get out of it.

Publishers, Inc. Carol Stream, Illinois Visit Tyndale online at www.tyndale.com. Even small dominions have, as you doubtless know by what you have seen of the matter on a small scale in the Wart. He didn't say anything for a while, but sat looking at the ground, thinking. Come - no secrets among friends. My, but wasn't the mate mad! So at last I plucked up courage and tipped the head clerk a signal. ", "Now how you talk! Thinks I, it won't do to run into him, so I shunted to one side and tore along. I was a good deal surprised at this, but I was diffident about speaking up and reminding them. Two weeks was a-plenty for me. He would be an ignoramus in such things - he would bore me, and I would bore him. Nobody but just you and me - it ain't much of a display for the barkeeper.". ", "You have got it. Then they turned from me and went on with their work, the same as if they considered my case all complete and shipshape. And what do they say about us? "Keep your eyes on the Grand Stand and the miles of seats - sharp!" ", "No, he isn't. Now I noticed that the skies were black with millions of people, pointed for those gates. It swarms with a mean kind of leather-headed mud-colored angels - and your nearest white neighbor is likely to be a million miles away.

Dick used to watch hungry-looking men and women and children, and track them home, and find out all about them from the neighbors, and then feed them and find them work. In about a minute and a half I was fringed out with an electrical nimbus that flamed around for miles and miles and lit up all space like broad day. ", "Have they really rung in Mahomet and all those other heathens? I was told to look down to earth. I wasn't calculating on doing anything really definite in that direction till the family come. The tents had been shut up all this time. ", Sandy and I put on our things. How is that? "Now THIS is something like!" I shouldn't ever heard the last of it. By and by I closed up abreast of his tail. And there was such a marvellous world spread out before me--such a glowing, beautiful, bewitching country. ”Ëeå�¨4N^¿DqªK˜éğ”§*ûZùf*Õ¤òXG5?ã. They appear with their wings, of course, because they are on official service, and because the dying persons wouldn't know they were angels if they hadn't wings - but do you reckon they fly with them? That tailor Billings, from Tennessee, wrote poetry that Homer and Shakespeare couldn't begin to come up to; but nobody would print it, nobody read it but his neighbors, an ignorant lot, and they laughed at it. In a little while we noticed a sort of a lightish flush, away off on the horizon. ", He got a balloon and sailed up and up and up, in front of a map that was as big as Rhode Island. The newest prophet, even, is of a sight more consequence than the oldest patriarch. I thanked him and started; but he says--, "Wait a minute; it is millions of leagues from here. ", "Well," says I, "come to think, there's something just here that I want to ask about. You see, on earth we jump to such foolish conclusions as to things up here. Well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

The learned men from other planets and other systems come here and hang around a while, when they are touring around the Kingdom, and then go back to their own section of heaven and write a book of travels, and they give America about five lines in it. Boom! ", "Man, we don't deal in States here. ", "Oh, the prophets hold over the patriarchs. Like as not some of the patriarchs will turn out. I've been making an ass of myself--is that it? ", "That is only another fort answering the first one. You want to wear your wings, you know, and your other things. ", I had him AGAIN, Peters!
", "Why, certainly, he will; but don't you be alarmed; he will run with his own kind, and there's plenty of them. "Once for all, where--are--you-- FROM? there's billions of them! I did so hate to do it, you know; it seemed a pity to bother them, they had so much on their hands. They wanted to know when he was going to heaven again.

", "Well," says I, "you don't notice anything? How did that happen? You see, I was full of the knowledge and experience of seventy-two years; the deepest subject those young folks could strike was only a-b-c to me. Back of those men's time the English are just simply foreigners, nothing more, nothing less; they talk Danish, German, Norman French, and sometimes a mixture of all three; back of THEM, they talk Latin, and ancient British, Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions and billions of pure savages that talk a gibberish that Satan himself couldn't understand. A quarter of a second ago these folks were millions of miles from here. Wherever he goes, crowds flock to see him. ", Puzzled? As the barkeeper climbed along up, bowing and smiling to everybody, and at last got to the platform, these tents were jerked up aloft all of a sudden, and we saw four noble thrones of gold, all caked with jewels, and in the two middle ones sat old white-whiskered men, and in the two others a couple of the most glorious and gaudy giants, with platter halos and beautiful armor. The story opens with Stormfield. You see, they think we whites and the occasional nigger are Injuns that have been bleached out or blackened by some leprous disease or other - for some peculiarly rascally SIN, mind you. Well, it was so near my course that I wouldn't throw away the chance; so I fell off a point, steadied my helm, and went for him. ", "I'll do it, Sandy. I took a walk. His face was as blank as a target after a militia shooting-match. Do you know what it was like? How are you going to have a republic at all, where the head of the government is absolute, holds his place forever, and has no parliament, no council to meddle or make in his affairs, nobody voted for, nobody elected, nobody in the whole universe with a voice in the government, nobody asked to take a hand in its matters, and nobody ALLOWED to do it? Well, I never heard the like of it before. ", "Well," says I, "I don't know anything more to say--unless I lump things, and just say I'm from the world.


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