Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 480
all sides, hundreds of these little fellowswere hard at work digging away at the goldensoil, piling it into heaps, and loading it into tinyrailroad-cars which ran from the mines to thewharves at the edge of the moon, where it wasthrown into heaps all ready for loading into thenext cloud ship that… … THE CHEESE MINES Or THE MOON. burning all the time, so that the workmen, whonever slept, could see to work at night. Thecloud ships came for their cargoes at all hours,and no delay was possible. It is the light from these fires that makesthe moon shine so to the people of the earth,added the old…
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