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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. OF THE MOON-FOLK AND THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. While I lived in Moonland I saw not a fewnew and strange things, which I shall now proceed to relate to such as care to hear them. They use but one kind of food only. There are great multitudes of frogs flying about in the air; these they catch, and lighting a fire, cook them upon the coals; and while the frogs are a-cooking, they sit round the fire, just as men sit round a table, and swallow the smoke, thinking it indeed to be the finest thing in the world. This is the meat with which they are nourished. As for drink, they pound air in a mortar, till it gives out a certain liquid very like to dew. None are counted so beautiful among this people as they that are altogether bald and without hair. Such as have their hair long they hate and abominate. But with those that dwell in the hairy stars which we call the comets, 'tis far otherwise, for they hold long-haired men in great admiration. This and other things about the CometFolk I heard from some of them who were on their travels in Moonland. Beards they all have, but these grow a little above the knee. They have no nails on their feet, which are indeed of one toe only. When they shed tears, these tears are honey, very sharp in taste, they told me, for this I do not know of my own experience; and when they sweat at their labour or their games, the sweat is milk. Aye, and they make good sound cheese thereof, with somewhat of the honey dropped in to set it. Their oil-olive they make of onions, very clear, and the most sweet-smelling thing that can be imagined. There are many vines in Moonland, but they bear water, not wine; for the grapes in the clusters are hailstones, and when the wind shakes the vines, the clusters are broken and the grapes fal...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217549059 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217549055 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.12 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 52 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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