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“My!” he exclaimed, “there are a lot of them, aren’t there?”
“Seven million nine hundred thousand six hundred and three,” said Nimbus. “What have you got, boy?”
“Message, sir,” said the Meteor briskly, taking off his cap and extracting a blue envelope.
Nimbus took it and ran his eye over it hastily.
“Here’s a pretty kettle of fish,” he said, handing the paper to Billy.
This is what Billy read as he held the paper in his trembling fingers:
“Accidentally went to sleep and the Spring Tide broke the other tropic. Equator trying to get away, and think I can’t hold him long. Please come or send help as soon as possible.
“Regretfully, Vernal E. Ox.”
So! The Equator was trying to do the very thing Mother told Billy not to let him do! He was trying to slip off the earth by way of the South Pole!
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