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The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Edward Everett Hale
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be out of the way when we were really ready to begin upon
the MOON.

Brannan, Haliburton, and Q. readily agreed to this
when they were consulted. They were the other trustees
under an instrument which we had got St. Leger[1] to draw
up. George gave up, as soon as he might, his other
appointments; and taught me, meanwhile, where and how I
was to rig a little saw-mill, to cut some necessary
lumber. I engaged a gang of men to cut the timber for
the dam, and to have it ready; and, with the next spring,
we were well at work on the dam and on the flies! These
needed, of course, the most solid foundation. The least
irregularity of their movement might send the MOON awry.


[1] The St. Leger of these stories was Francis Brown
Hayes, H. C. 1839.


Ah me! would I not gladly tell the history of every
bar of iron which was bent into the tires of those flies,
and of every log which was mortised into its place in the
dam, nay, of every curling mass of foam which played in
the eddies beneath, when the dam was finished, and the
waste water ran so smoothly over? Alas! that one drop
should be wasted of water that might move a world,
although a small one! I almost dare say that I remember
each and all these,--with such hope and happiness did I
lend myself, as I could, each day to the great
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