THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 53 
Our improved aerial ship was beautifully constructed, had 
every comfort, convenience, had everything we wanted, all we 
had to do was to wish for what we needed, and lo, we had it, 
without paying a cent for labor or materials, so we are quite 
independent of strikes during the manufacture. We did not 
“kill the goose that lays the golden egg,” as so many make the 
mistake of doing. 
On a lovely moonlight night the members of the Astro- 
nomical Society boarded the aerial ship, including the honorary 
president, who hesitated a little while before venturing, as he 
is a heavyweight, but at last he consented to accompany us, 
along with our worthy president, who took the chair, and 
opened the meeting with the following words: “ Now, gentle- 
men, we are going to pay a visit to the planet Saturn, and as 
we have to travel over 800 millions of miles to get to it, we have 
to “ get a gait on,” and to prevent time from hanging heavy on 
our hands, I will make it a rule that each one of you will either 
tell us something about the planet Saturn, tell a story, sing a 
song, or give a recitation.” 
So under these conditions we started, and away we went 
flying through space at a tremendous speed, and as we ap- 
proached the Moon the president called on Mr. Jenkins, F. R. 
A. S., one of our new members, for a recitation, which he gave 
charmingly in an address to the Moon, in the following words: 
[I am only sorry that I cannot render it as he gave it, away up 
in those clear, calm, ethereal regions, but it was something like 
this, only much better. | 
TO THE MOON. 
Tis a lovely eve, and the Lady Moon 
Is out on her lake of blue, 
With its little isles of light and gloom, 
Where the stars are wandering through. 
And she sheds her smile like a veil of dreams, 
Athwart the earth and sky, 
With its mazy deeps and its golden gleams, 
And its streaks of nameless dye. 
