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FINDING NATURE’S TREASURES 
you jump up in the air,” said Uncle Jack. “But let’s play 
that you could fly to the moon. How long would it take 
you to get there?” 
“An airplane goes whizzing, Uncle Jack,” answered 
Buddy. “It goes more than a hundred miles an hour. 
It might take me all day to get there if I didn’t stop.” 
“It is farther than you think it is, Buddy. You would 
have to fly all day and all night during your whole sum¬ 
mer vacation.” 
“Do you mean I would have to fly the whole three 
months at a hundred miles an hour, and never stop to 
eat or sleep?” demanded Buddy. “Whew! That is a 
long way, Uncle Jack. It gives me a headache to think 
about it. I believe I would rather stay here and let you 
tell me about it.” 
“I think that is the better plan,” said Uncle Jack. “It 
would not be very much fun even after you got there. 
It would be so hot during the day that you would burn. 
You would feel as if you were walking on the top of a 
stove that is nearly red hot. You would fry like a piece 
of bacon in a frying pan. That is the way you would 
feel all day, and a day on the moon is two weeks long.” 
“I can almost feel myself frying now,” said Marylee; 
and they all laughed. 
“Then after you were cooked for two weeks, it would 
get dark,” continued Uncle Jack. “You would not even 
be warm any more. Oh, no! You would get colder and 
colder. You could put on all of your clothes and still you 
would be cold. Your nose would freeze. Your fingers and 
