expeditions."

Not business men. And besides, they get paid for polar expeditions. And

if anything goes wrong there are relief parties. But this--it's just

firing ourselves off the world for nothing."

"Call it prospecting."

"You'll have to call it that.... One might make a book of it perhaps," I

said.

I have no doubt there will be minerals," said Cavor.

For example?"

Oh! sulphur, ores, gold perhaps, possibly new elements."

Cost of carriage," I said. "You know you're not a practical man. The

moon's a quarter of a million miles away."

"It seems to me it wouldn't cost much to cart any weight anywhere if you

packed it in a Cavorite case."

I had not thought of that. "Delivered free on head of purchaser, eh?"

"It isn't as though we were confined to the moon."

The First Men In The Moon