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the moon — out Of its volcanoes; but now the theory is that millions
of these fragmei ts are journeying about the sun, and sometimes the

earth cuts across
their path, and
then they come
showering down
through-the air.

In November
and August —
toward the mid-
dle—we see

more of them.

Sometimes they
burst, and their
fragments. are
scattered upon
the earth. You
will see accounts
in the papers of
meteors that
have struck the
earth and been
picked up. They
have been found
weighing over
one thousand
pounds in this
country, and a
large one is in
the Smithsonian

 

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