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Mother Goose in Prose

Creator: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
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"Try it yourself!" he cried. So she tried it and found it very cold and pleasant. But the Man was so astonished to see her eat the porridge that had blistered his own mouth that he became frightened and ran out of the house and down the street as fast as he could go. The policeman on the first corner saw him running, and promptly arrested him, and he was marched off to the magistrate for trial. "What is your name?" asked the magistrate. "I have n't any," replied the Man; for of course as he was the only Man in the Moon it was n't necessary he should have a name. "Come, come, no nonsense!" said the magistrate, "you must have some name. Who are you?" "Why, I 'm the Man in the Moon." "That 's rubbish!" said the magistrate, eyeing the prisoner severely, "you may be a man, but you 're not in the moon-you 're in Norwich." "That is true," answered the Man, who was quite bewildered by this idea. "And of course you must be called something," continued the
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