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A VOYAGE IN SPACE
telescope; it is a large IF), you might see your grandmother going out as a baby for the first time.
Well, as I say, that means that if we use the telescope, we shall get to the heavenly bodies in really less than no time, which would be very convenient;
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and so I propose to say a word or two about this wonderful car we are going in the Telescope; for it is just as well to understand your car. Any one who gets a motor-car looks carefully at all the parts; and to-day I want you to learn about the telescope, and what has been its history. Perhaps I ought not
