Tom Nunes

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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

This would surely have been the fate of the man had there not been present an old astronomer who had often looked at the moon through his telescope, and so had discovered that what was hot on earth was cold in the moon, and what was cold here was hot there.

So he began to think the man had told the truth.

Therefore he begged the magistrate to wait a few minutes while he looked through his telescope to see if the man in the moon was there.

So as it was now night, he fetched his telescope and looked at the moon.

and found that there was no man in it at all.

It seems to be true, said the astronomer, that the man has got out of the moon somehow or other.

Let me look at your mouth, sir, and see if it is really burned.

And the man opened his mouth, and everyone saw plainly it was burned to a blister.

Thereupon the magistrate begged his pardon for doubting his word, and asked him what he would like to do next.

I'd like to go back to the moon, said the man, for I don't like this earth of yours at all.

The nights are too hot.

Why, it's quite cool this evening, said the magistrate.

I'll tell you what we can do, remarked the astronomer.

There's a big balloon in town which belongs to the circus that came here last summer, and was pawned for a board bill.

We can inflate this balloon and send the man out of the moon home in it.

That's a good idea, replied the judge.

So the balloon was brought and inflated, and the man got into the basket and gave the word to let go, and then the balloon mounted up into the sky in the direction of the moon.

The good people of Norwich stood on the earth and tipped back their heads and watched the balloon go higher and higher until finally the man reached out and caught hold of the edge of the moon, and behold, the next minute he was the man in the moon again.

After this adventure, he was well contented to stay at home, and I've no doubt if you look through a telescope he would

You will see him there to this day.

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