"Shall we walk around?"
Whereupon the two young people set out on a narrow, but much worn
trail. Keeping the sky always at their right, they passed through
the thicket, Mona's eyes telling Billie that the queer horizontal
vegetation grew always toward the light.
It was much like the growth at the bottom of any gulch; only the two
were walking in the normal way, upright, at right angles to the
surface, quite as though it were level ground!
Overhead the thicket grew in the same fashion; Billie thought the
foliage much like ferns. Here and there, however, was a small
flowering shrub; and it was to one of these that a tiny,
orange-colored bird came flying.
And Billie wondered why Mona did not gasp in astonishment. For the
bird, when it alighted upon the shrub, was not over eight feet above
Mona's eyes; and unless there was something decidedly wrong with the
girl's vision, the bird had alighted upside down!
There it clung, chirping flatly, moving its head from side to side
and watching the two with bright, unfrightened eyes.
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