Professor Anderson and I decided to come here
and see if we could find it for the museum which is connected with the
college in which Anderson teaches.
"For we knew that, though most meteors are burned up as they shoot
through the air before they strike the earth, yet some come down in
big chunks, and we wanted such a one if we could get it. So we hunted
for it all over this island. We saw you, but you were never very near.
Sometimes we stayed in the cave at night, but usually went back to the
mainland. All the while we were hunting for the blue rocks, for that
is the color of this particular meteor.
"A few nights before you folks came here to camp, when we were digging
in the ground hoping to find what we wanted, our shovel must have
struck a piece of the meteor, for there was a flash of blue fire that
burned for quite a while."
"We saw it," cried Ted, "and we didn't know what it was!"
"Teddy and me--we saw it!" added Jan.
"Well, that was all of the meteor we could find for some time," went
on Mr. Weston. "And as that burned up--was consumed--we didn't have
any. Then, the other night through the bushes we happened to come upon
some blue stones, and I took them away.
"Then my friend and I hunted again to find the big piece of the fallen
star, but we could not come across it. I was about to give up, but now
we are all right.
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