48 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



afraid you will go past the window before we 

 are half through talking. Can't you ever be 

 still?" 



" That would be breaking Rule No. 1 in Sky- 

 land, which is 4 keep moving' ' 



" What if you don't ? " 



" Then you fall up out of sight." 



" Fall up ! I never heard of falling up." 



" It all depends upon where you are standing ; 

 up from one place is down from another." 



" But," said Anne, not feeling able to argue 

 with the Moon, " when one of you fall, where do 

 you fall to ? " 



" Ask Wabeno, the Magician, for no one who 

 has fallen through space has ever come back to 

 give me an account of his journey," said the Moon, 

 blinking solemnly as a procession of cloud Ele- 

 phants, Camels, and Buffaloes, chased by a great 

 Dragon, passed before its face. 



" What is the next rule in Skyland ? " asked 

 Anne. 



" ''Follow your leader? " replied the Moon, 

 promptly. " That is why I am always running 

 round and round the Earth and the Earth is all 

 the time tramping round the Sun." 



" Why don't you go round the Sun by yourself 

 and let the Earth alone ? " 



