Ade\'s Fables
ADE'S FABLES BY GEORGE ADE BY THE SAME AUTHOR _The College Widow, In Pastures New, Knocking the Neighbors, Fables in Slang_ _Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon_ GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1914 _Copyright, 1912, 1913, by_ COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE _Copyright, 1914, by_ DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. _All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages,
magistrate.
"Well, then," said the prisoner, "if I 'm not the Man in the Moon I
must be the Man out of the Moon; so call me that."
"Very good," replied the judge; "now, then, where did you come from?"
"The moon."
"Oh, you did, eh? How did you get here?"
"I slid down a moonbeam."
"Indeed! Well, what were you running for?"
"A woman gave me some cold pease porridge, and it burned my mouth."
The magistrate looked at him a moment in surprise, and then he said,
"This person is evidently crazy; so take him to the lunatic asylum and
keep him there."
This would surely have been the fate of the Man had there not been
present an old astronomer who had often looked at the moon through his
telescope, and so had discovered that what was hot on earth was cold
in the moon, and what was cold here was hot there; so he began to
ADE'S FABLES BY GEORGE ADE BY THE SAME AUTHOR _The College Widow, In Pastures New, Knocking the Neighbors, Fables in Slang_ _Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon_ GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1914 _Copyright, 1912, 1913, by_ COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE _Copyright, 1914, by_ DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. _All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages,