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  <f311r.P.10;W>     even the daily papers woke up to the disturbances at -
  <f311r.P.11;W>     last and popular notes appeared here there and everywhere -
  <f311r.P.12;W>     concerning the volcanoes upon mars the seriocomic periodi -
  <f311r.P.13;W>     cal punch i remember made a happy use of it in the -
  <f311r.P.14;W>     political cartoon and all unsuspected those missiles the -
  <f311r.P.15;W>     martians had fired at us drew earthward rushing now at a -
  <f311r.P.16;W>     pace of many miles a second through the empty gulf of -
  <f311r.P.17;W>     space hour by hour and day by day nearer and nearer it -
  <f311r.P.18;W>     seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that with -
  <f311r.P.19;W>     that swift fate hanging over us men could go about their -
  <f311r.P.20;W>     petty concerns as they did i remember how jubilant markham -
  <f311r.P.21;W>     was at securing a new photograph of the planet for the -
  <f311r.P.22;W>     illustrated paper he edited in those days people in these -
  <f311r.P.23;W>     latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise -
  <f311r.P.24;W>     of our nineteenthcentury papers for my own part i was -
  <f311r.P.25;W>     much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle and busy -
  <f311r.P.26;W>     upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments -
  <f311r.P.27;W>     of moral ideas as civilisation progressed =

  <f311r.P.28;W>     one night the first missile then could scarcely have been -
  <f311r.P.29;W>     miles away i went for a walk with my wife it -
  <f311r.P.30;W>     was starlight and i explained the signs of the zodiac to -
  <f311r.P.31;W>     her and pointed out mars a bright dot of light creeping -
  <f311r.P.32;W>     zenithward towards which so many telescopes were pointed -
  <f311r.P.33;W>     it was a warm night coming home a party of excursionists -
  <f311r.P.34;W>     from chertsey or isleworth passed us singing and playing -
  <f311r.P.35;W>     music there were lights in the upper windows of the houses -
  <f311r.P.36;W>     as the people went to bed from the railway station in the -
  <f311r.P.37;W>     distance came the sound of shunting trains ringing and -
  <f311r.P.38;W>     rumbling softened almost into melody by the distance my -
  <f311r.P.39;W>     wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red green and -
  <f311r.P.40;W>     yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky -
  <f311r.P.41;W>     it seemed so safe and tranquil =

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