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diff --git a/72907-0.txt b/72907-0.txt index 0b07ad3..f6e8e80 100644 --- a/72907-0.txt +++ b/72907-0.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN THE MOON FELL *** +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72907 *** @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ o'clock, eight o'clock passed. Jim turned to me with a half grin. "Seems funny to be watching for the moon and frightened to death for fear we'll see it." -"Well I guess we're safe if we don't see it for the next six hours." +"Well, I guess we're safe if we don't see it for the next six hours." I climbed into the cabin of the plane and began going over the engine. Suddenly I heard a shout from Jim. I jumped out of the door to the @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ and day. The sky was a burnished copper color, when it was not being traversed by the brilliantly blazing moon, and, each time the moon appeared over our rocky horizon, it nearly filled the heavens. -I think we ate from time to time. I know we became extra-ordinarily +I think we ate from time to time. I know we became extraordinarily thirsty and were continually drinking. I assume that the wind exhausted all the moisture in the air around us, and the air exhausted it from our bodies. I do not even know whether that is a possible explanation, @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ I crawled out of my sleeping bag and went over and shook him. He opened his eyes and looked at me blankly for a moment. Then he groaned and tried to grin. "So we're not dead after all?" -"We'll be drowned if we stay here." I said wearily. "Let's try to get +"We'll be drowned if we stay here," I said wearily. "Let's try to get inside the cabin. My, it's hot!" "Hot?" questioned Jim, trying to rise. "So it is. I think all my bones @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ to be seen. We had neither of us any clothes except those we wore. We stripped off our dripping outer things and let them lie where they fell. There was nothing else to do with them until the rain stopped. We found that -heavy woolen under-clothing was not much more comfortable than furs in +heavy woolen underclothing was not much more comfortable than furs in that temperature. We settled down in the cabin and proceeded to make the best of things, quite content to be alive. @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ sun beating down continuously and no night." "How hot do you suppose it will get?" -"You can guess about it as well as I can. A hundred-and-fifty degrees, +"You can guess about it as well as I can. A hundred and fifty degrees, maybe higher. Certainly hot enough to kill all animal and vegetable life." @@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ shrubs and flowering plants and dwarf trees. When he said that there were four hundred varieties of plants and over a hundred types of birds I was so openly skeptical that he gazed at me reproachfully and then left the room. In a few minutes he came back with a volume of an -encyclopedia open at the article on Greenland. +encyclopaedia open at the article on Greenland. So Jensen was responsible for my knowing more about Greenland than most people did. I knew there were about five hundred white people on the @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ flying field?" "There is a dispute among the fliers as to whether it would be better to take to the air in the machines with as many passengers as they can -carry, or await developments here with the planes sheltered as much as +carry, or wait developments here with the planes sheltered as much as possible. They want your advice." A few minutes later we were making our way to the center of a @@ -1114,4 +1114,4 @@ THE END. -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN THE MOON FELL ***
\ No newline at end of file +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72907 *** diff --git a/72907-h/72907-h.htm b/72907-h/72907-h.htm index 0bd5d08..a128069 100644 --- a/72907-h/72907-h.htm +++ b/72907-h/72907-h.htm @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ div.titlepage p { </style> </head> <body> -<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN THE MOON FELL ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72907 ***</div> <div class="titlepage"> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ o'clock, eight o'clock passed.</p> <p>Jim turned to me with a half grin. "Seems funny to be watching for the moon and frightened to death for fear we'll see it."</p> -<p>"Well I guess we're safe if we don't see it for the next six hours."</p> +<p>"Well, I guess we're safe if we don't see it for the next six hours."</p> <p>I climbed into the cabin of the plane and began going over the engine. Suddenly I heard a shout from Jim. I jumped out of the door to the @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ and day. The sky was a burnished copper color, when it was not being traversed by the brilliantly blazing moon, and, each time the moon appeared over our rocky horizon, it nearly filled the heavens.</p> -<p>I think we ate from time to time. I know we became extra-ordinarily +<p>I think we ate from time to time. I know we became extraordinarily thirsty and were continually drinking. I assume that the wind exhausted all the moisture in the air around us, and the air exhausted it from our bodies. I do not even know whether that is a possible explanation, @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ away Jim lay as if he were dead.</p> his eyes and looked at me blankly for a moment. Then he groaned and tried to grin. "So we're not dead after all?"</p> -<p>"We'll be drowned if we stay here." I said wearily. "Let's try to get +<p>"We'll be drowned if we stay here," I said wearily. "Let's try to get inside the cabin. My, it's hot!"</p> <p>"Hot?" questioned Jim, trying to rise. "So it is. I think all my bones @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ to be seen.</p> <p>We had neither of us any clothes except those we wore. We stripped off our dripping outer things and let them lie where they fell. There was nothing else to do with them until the rain stopped. We found that -heavy woolen under-clothing was not much more comfortable than furs in +heavy woolen underclothing was not much more comfortable than furs in that temperature. We settled down in the cabin and proceeded to make the best of things, quite content to be alive.</p> @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ sun beating down continuously and no night."</p> <p>"How hot do you suppose it will get?"</p> -<p>"You can guess about it as well as I can. A hundred-and-fifty degrees, +<p>"You can guess about it as well as I can. A hundred and fifty degrees, maybe higher. Certainly hot enough to kill all animal and vegetable life."</p> @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ shrubs and flowering plants and dwarf trees. When he said that there were four hundred varieties of plants and over a hundred types of birds I was so openly skeptical that he gazed at me reproachfully and then left the room. In a few minutes he came back with a volume of an -encyclopedia open at the article on Greenland.</p> +encyclopaedia open at the article on Greenland.</p> <p>So Jensen was responsible for my knowing more about Greenland than most people did. I knew there were about five hundred white people on the @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ flying field?"</p> <p>"There is a dispute among the fliers as to whether it would be better to take to the air in the machines with as many passengers as they can -carry, or await developments here with the planes sheltered as much as +carry, or wait developments here with the planes sheltered as much as possible. They want your advice."</p> <p>A few minutes later we were making our way to the center of a @@ -1212,6 +1212,7 @@ preserved in case neither Jim nor I return.</p> <p class="ph2">THE END.</p> -<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN THE MOON FELL ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72907 ***</div> </body> </html> + |