own minds.

"Wonder," said Dick again, "how far off they be."

"A mile or two, maybe," said Joe.

Henri was about to laugh sarcastically at this, but

on further consideration he thought it would be more

comfortable not to, so he lay still. In another minute

he said,--

"Joe Blunt, you is ver' igrant. Don't you know dat

de books say de stars be hondreds, tousands--oh!

milleryons of mile away to here, and dat dey is more