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Saw anxious earth-being and intelligent brute wandering aimlessly about in deserted region ~~ On one occasion cloud of fowl rose from ground ~~ Earth-being looked at them through long metal stick which exploded, frightening several fowl to death ~~ Earth-being placed them in large pocket.
Mr. Skygack, July 11, 1910
Came upon very industrious earth-being, long after business hours ~~ Was mending heavy iron box ~~ Worked by light coming from tin can ~~ Performed task with considerable alacrity ~~ Made no noise.
Saw two earth-beings on platform, engaged in noise contest ~~ Male earth-being hugged and scraped oddly shaped screech-screech object, while female manipulated thump-thump contrivance ~~ Male was disguised with lion-brute’s mane ~~ Large crowd of dreamy-eyed earth-beings sat by in awe-struck attitudes.
Looked through aperture in big wall ~~ Saw earth-being producing discordant sounds ~~ Made many quick, jerky motions ~~ Grew very hoarse ~~ Said “Hello, Central” eighteen times ~~ Yelled at inanimate object in right hand ~~ Seemed in pain.
Never tarried in community more thickly studded with idols ~~ Each thoroughfare lavishly supplied ~~ however, have not noted any earth-beings kneeling before said images, in devout attitudes.
Tacoma Times, Nov 27th, 1912
Came upon field-enclosure with earth-men acrobating ~~ Wore strange pad-armour and nose elastics ~~ Made foot-steps on each other’s face features in dispute over skin-spheroid ~~ Slaughter gave onlookers great rah-rah gladness.
Seattle Star, Oct. 18, 1907
Listened for some time to wonderful talking machine ~~ Throws of very disagreeable smell ~~ See no practical use for the contrivance ~~ Noticed one wheel was out of breath.
Seattle Star, Feb 25th, 1908
Entered house shaped like arctic snow hut ~~ Saw earth beings fussing around oddly constructed machine ~~ Contrivance too large for house necessitating projection of one end through roof ~~ Heard such words as “Mars”, “Canals”, “Opposition”, “Polar Caps”, “Atmosphere”, “Inhabitants”, “Cosmic Void”, etc
WHO’S-WHO IN THE COMICS
By Fred Schaefer
Some years ago a gentle inoffensive stranger landed on this terrestial sphere with no luggage but a notebook. Since then “he has tarried with us, pussyfooted and unobtrusive as a Japanese spy, picking up information and knitting his intellectual brow over the incomprehensible things so different from those on his own planet. This was Mr. Skygack from Mars. It is, however, not clearly known how long he will continue his earth study of earth beings at their earth work’s, nor how he will get back to Mars when he concludes to return. It will probably be by the same means by which he arrived, unless by chance he came as a meteorite. Continue reading “Who’s Who in the Comics, 1912”