The Romance of the Moon

PREFACE
SCIENCE is very good in its own way, but we observe a wide-spread and lamentable ignorance concerning all that pertains to the romantic side of our earth’s history. It is to dispel this ignorance that the following facts are made public.

One summer’s night, about a million years ago, it happened that the Moon was pensive.
It also happened that the Earth was floating leisurely about in space as if he thought himself a thing of beauty. But she affected not to see him.
Old Saturn did, however, and understood it all. For æons he had loved this Moon, but she had chilled him to the marrow whenever he approached.
When he saw the Earth go nearer and nearer, and finally sit beside her, and even then get nearer still and tell her something in an earnest manner, and she enjoy it all, his spirit boiled within him.
He swore to spoil the fun, then burst upon them in a fury.
High words ensued.
And trouble followed.
They had an ugly fight, tearing about the Heavens for hours, bumping into other Planets, and deranging the whole solar system.