His great head and face I could see far above me, as it were, in the clouds.

Yet I was not at all astonished.
"This is all right," I said to myself.

"Of course on Menippe the people must be as large as this, for the little planet is only a dozen miles in diameter, and the force of gravity is consequently so small that a man without loss of activity, or inconvenience, can grow three quarters of a mile tall." Suddenly an idea occurred to me.

"Just to think what a jump I can make! Why, only the other day I was figuring it out that a man could easily jump a thousand feet high from the surface of Menippe, and now here I actually am on Menippe.

I'll jump." The sensation of that glorious rise skyward was delightful beyond expression.