CHAPTER VII.
A HIGH OLD TIME.
A new phenomenon, therefore, strange but logical, startling but admitting of easy explanation, was now presented to their view, affording a fresh subject for lively discussion.

Not that they disputed much about it.

They soon agreed on a principle from which they readily deducted the following general law: _Every object thrown out of the Projectile should partake of the Projectile's motion: it should therefore follow the same path, and never cease to move until the Projectile itself came to a stand-still._ But, in sober truth, they were at anything but a loss of subjects of warm discussion.

As the end of their journey began to approach, their senses became keener and their sensations vivider.

Steeled against surprise, they looked for the unexpected, the strange, the startling; and the only thing at which they would have wondered would be to be five minutes without having something new to wonder at.