272 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS,

and Uncle Nat one evening, when Ralph exclaimed, “Do you
remember you said something about Saturn one day, when talking
about telescopes, and said it was a beautiful

  
   
   
  

object seen through a telescope?”

“Yes, and I promised to tell you about
it. Do you want to see a picture of Saturn?”

“Tf you please.” ;

Uncle Nat brought a book from his state-
room and showed the famous planet to the
young people.

“There,” he said, “if you can, imagine a
body in volume seven hundred times
larger than the earth, encircled by
such rings. You see that there are
three; but the mnermost can only
be seen through a telescope of great
magnifying powers. ‘These rings are
regular in form, being concentric,
or, having the same centre., You can
imagine how magnificent — to a Sa- Seago aN:
turnian — must seem those vast arches sweeping above the planet. Then
Saturn has eight satellites or moons, the largest compaing with mercury
in size. Light up the arches, kindle up the moons, and the heavens to
a Saturnian must be marvelously grand.”

The party now left the cabin, when Rick ‘said, “Oh, see that.
shooting star!”

It flashed downward like an arrow of fire, quenched at last in
the sea. y

“Where do they come from, uncle?”

“That is a question, Rick. Once people said they came from