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Sun Spots, v. 4, issue 3, whole no. 15, February 1941
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February, 1941. SUN SPOTS Page 17 ing around, although there were very few of them near the cave entrance that we had chosen for our destination. Our large clumsy space suits somewhat shortened our steps, but they were sill over twice as long as any we had ever taken on Earth. The animals paid little attention to us; infact they didn't even seem to notice us at all. As we neared the first one I saw the reason why---they had no eyes. In informed my comrades of this at once through the radio transmitter, attached to the galssite helmet of the suit. We slipped past the largest group of the beasts, and in five minutes were but several hundred feet from the cave mouth. At this point there remained but two animals between us and the cave. One of the two--the larger--semed to sence our presence. He thrashed his long scaled tail, and opened his monstrous mouth as if letting out a roar. No sound could be heard since there was no atmosphere. He turned on us---sending my comrades and myself in a fast trot towards the cave. We covered the distance, several yards at a time , and soon were there. The beast had stopped and was returning to the rest of the heard. Now, for the first time, we stopped and surveyed our surroundings. The light from our five large electric lanterns hardly lit a small part of the section we were in. High above us were long tapering stalagmites, glimmering strangly in the light from our lanterns. Reaching up from the cavern floor were more stalagmites, groping towards the ones high above. In seceral cases, they had met and formed beautiful pillars of shimmering silver and blue. We craned our necks upward, glancing at the magnificent specticle of ghostly grandure, being seen for the first time by alian eyes. While thus engrossed, we blundered further and further into the long black extremities of the Lunar Cavern. Soon the dull glow from the entrance through which we had entered, dissappeared in a distance. . . "Amazing", I could here Von Schopenhauer muttering over and over to himself. Similar exclaimations were coming from the others as well as myself. . .We went on like this for some 10 minutes---I guess it was more than that but at the time it seemed like less. coming to a division in the tunnel we stopped to decide which of the three forks to take. --as we did so, I felt something tugging on the leg of my space suit. Looking down I saw to my astonishment a small black, slimy looking snake, with redish eyes, and a wide gaping mouth. . .I was horrified---even more so, when I found that to my extreme horror that the entire floor of the cavern was one crawling mass of the revolting little reptiles. My comrades as well as myself were now well awair of there presence, and were busy kicking them off and stamping on them. It seemed that no matter how many you trampled, there were more to take their places. A green pulpish blood-if that it could be called--oozed from the slimy little creatures every time one was stepped on. I yelled to my friends and try and make a break for the entrance, by upon looking around, I realized that all four branches were exactly the same in appearance! I knew not which way to go! I turned back to my comrades--Schaffer was down--snakes were squirming all over him. One of the larger reptiles, his red eyes blazing, his jaws open wide, sunk his ugly fangs into Shaffer's leg---A horrible scream came over the portable radio--Schaffer's body went rigid--his face began purpling---no air---space death! . . .A large snake was crawling up my leg---his fangs, open wide neared my helmet---I slipped and fell. . . (Continued in SSp next month)
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February, 1941. SUN SPOTS Page 17 ing around, although there were very few of them near the cave entrance that we had chosen for our destination. Our large clumsy space suits somewhat shortened our steps, but they were sill over twice as long as any we had ever taken on Earth. The animals paid little attention to us; infact they didn't even seem to notice us at all. As we neared the first one I saw the reason why---they had no eyes. In informed my comrades of this at once through the radio transmitter, attached to the galssite helmet of the suit. We slipped past the largest group of the beasts, and in five minutes were but several hundred feet from the cave mouth. At this point there remained but two animals between us and the cave. One of the two--the larger--semed to sence our presence. He thrashed his long scaled tail, and opened his monstrous mouth as if letting out a roar. No sound could be heard since there was no atmosphere. He turned on us---sending my comrades and myself in a fast trot towards the cave. We covered the distance, several yards at a time , and soon were there. The beast had stopped and was returning to the rest of the heard. Now, for the first time, we stopped and surveyed our surroundings. The light from our five large electric lanterns hardly lit a small part of the section we were in. High above us were long tapering stalagmites, glimmering strangly in the light from our lanterns. Reaching up from the cavern floor were more stalagmites, groping towards the ones high above. In seceral cases, they had met and formed beautiful pillars of shimmering silver and blue. We craned our necks upward, glancing at the magnificent specticle of ghostly grandure, being seen for the first time by alian eyes. While thus engrossed, we blundered further and further into the long black extremities of the Lunar Cavern. Soon the dull glow from the entrance through which we had entered, dissappeared in a distance. . . "Amazing", I could here Von Schopenhauer muttering over and over to himself. Similar exclaimations were coming from the others as well as myself. . .We went on like this for some 10 minutes---I guess it was more than that but at the time it seemed like less. coming to a division in the tunnel we stopped to decide which of the three forks to take. --as we did so, I felt something tugging on the leg of my space suit. Looking down I saw to my astonishment a small black, slimy looking snake, with redish eyes, and a wide gaping mouth. . .I was horrified---even more so, when I found that to my extreme horror that the entire floor of the cavern was one crawling mass of the revolting little reptiles. My comrades as well as myself were now well awair of there presence, and were busy kicking them off and stamping on them. It seemed that no matter how many you trampled, there were more to take their places. A green pulpish blood-if that it could be called--oozed from the slimy little creatures every time one was stepped on. I yelled to my friends and try and make a break for the entrance, by upon looking around, I realized that all four branches were exactly the same in appearance! I knew not which way to go! I turned back to my comrades--Schaffer was down--snakes were squirming all over him. One of the larger reptiles, his red eyes blazing, his jaws open wide, sunk his ugly fangs into Shaffer's leg---A horrible scream came over the portable radio--Schaffer's body went rigid--his face began purpling---no air---space death! . . .A large snake was crawling up my leg---his fangs, open wide neared my helmet---I slipped and fell. . . (Continued in SSp next month)
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