SHOOTING STARS 
“Money! Money! Money! Money! Money!” shouted 
Marylee, as she jumped up from the chair where she was 
sitting on the front porch after dark. 
“Now what has happened?’' asked Uncle Jack, as he 
looked at Marylee. “Did you see a lot of money?” 
Mother laughed and said, “Don’t you remember, Jack, 
when we were children, how we used to say, money, 
money, when we saw a shooting star?” 
“Oh, yes, I remember now,” answered he. “We thought 
the more times we could say money while it was in sight, 
the more money we would have some time.” 
“Why do the stars fall?” asked Buddy. “Aren’t they 
fastened well enough in the sky?” 
“Those shooting lights are not really stars,” answered 
Uncle Jack. “The stars that you see twinkling up in the 
sky never fall. They are many times farther away than 
the moon. Each one is many, many times larger than 
our whole earth.” 
“What are those falling lights we see, then?” asked 
Buddy. 
“They are called meteors,” answered Uncle Jack. 
“Some of them are as large as our house. Some are 
larger, most of them are smaller. They are much like 
a big rock. But they are not bright. So you cannot see 
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