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"
No
,
"
I
said
.
"
Not
as
we
are
.
"
For
a
space
we
remained
,
each
occupied
by
his
own
thoughts
.
Chid
,
chid
,
chid
went
the
chipping
,
and
the
shadows
moved
to
and
fro
.
I
looked
at
the
grating
.
"
It
's
flimsy
,
"
I
said
.
"
We
might
bend
two
of
the
bars
and
crawl
through
.
"
We
wasted
a
little
time
in
vague
discussion
.
Then
I
took
one
of
the
bars
in
both
hands
,
and
got
my
feet
up
against
the
rock
until
they
were
almost
on
a
level
with
my
head
,
and
so
thrust
against
the
bar
.
It
bent
so
suddenly
that
I
almost
slipped
.
I
clambered
about
and
bent
the
adjacent
bar
in
the
opposite
direction
,
and
then
took
the
luminous
fungus
from
my
pocket
and
dropped
it
down
the
fissure
.
"
Do
n't
do
anything
hastily
,
"
whispered
Cavor
,
as
I
twisted
myself
up
through
the
opening
I
had
enlarged
.
I
had
a
glimpse
of
busy
figures
as
I
came
through
the
grating
,
and
immediately
bent
down
,
so
that
the
rim
of
the
depression
in
which
the
grating
lay
hid
me
from
their
eyes
,
and
so
lay
flat
,
signalling
advice
to
Cavor
as
he
also
prepared
to
come
through
.
Presently
we
were
side
by
side
in
the
depression
,
peering
over
the
edge
at
the
cavern
and
its
occupants
.
It
was
a
much
larger
cavern
than
we
had
supposed
from
our
first
glimpse
of
it
,
and
we
looked
up
from
the
lowest
portion
of
its
sloping
floor
.
It
widened
out
as
it
receded
from
us
,
and
its
roof
came
down
and
hid
the
remoter
portion
altogether
.
And
lying
in
a
line
along
its
length
,
vanishing
at
last
far
away
in
that
tremendous
perspective
,
were
a
number
of
huge
shapes
,
huge
pallid
hulls
,
upon
which
the
Selenites
were
busy
.
At
first
they
seemed
big
white
cylinders
of
vague
import
.
Then
I
noted
the
heads
upon
them
lying
towards
us
,
eyeless
and
skinless
like
the
heads
of
sheep
at
a
butcher
's
,
and
perceived
they
were
the
carcasses
of
mooncalves
being
cut
up
,
much
as
the
crew
of
a
whaler
might
cut
up
a
moored
whale
.
They
were
cutting
off
the
flesh
in
strips
,
and
on
some
of
the
farther
trunks
the
white
ribs
were
showing
.
It
was
the
sound
of
their
hatchets
that
made
that
chid
,
chid
,
chid
.
Some
way
away
a
thing
like
a
trolley
cable
,
drawn
and
loaded
with
chunks
of
lax
meat
,
was
running
up
the
slope
of
the
cavern
floor
.
This
enormous
long
avenue
of
hulls
that
were
destined
to
be
food
gave
us
a
sense
of
the
vast
populousness
of
the
moon
world
second
only
to
the
effect
of
our
first
glimpse
down
the
shaft
.
It
seemed
to
me
at
first
that
the
Selenites
must
be
standing
on
trestle-supported
planks
,
[
2
]
and
then
I
saw
that
the
planks
and
supports
and
the
hatchets
were
really
of
the
same
leaden
hue
as
my
fetters
had
seemed
before
white
light
came
to
bear
on
them
.
A
number
of
very
thick-looking
crowbars
lay
about
the
floor
,
and
had
apparently
assisted
to
turn
the
dead
mooncalf
over
on
its
side
.
They
were
perhaps
six
feet
long
,
with
shaped
handles
,
very
tempting-looking
weapons
.
The
whole
place
was
lit
by
three
transverse
streams
of
the
blue
fluid
.
[
2
]
I
do
not
remember
seeing
any
wooden
things
on
the
moon
;
doors
,
tables
,
everything
corresponding
to
our
terrestrial
joinery
was
made
of
metal
,
and
I
believe
for
the
most
part
of
gold
,
which
as
a
metal
would
,
of
course
,
naturally
recommend
itself
--
other
things
being
equal
--
on
account
of
the
ease
in
working
it
,
and
its
toughness
and
durability
.
