Calico Classics Illustrated: War of the Worlds

Calico Classics Illustrated: War of the Worlds — page 7
Poor Ogilvy had seen the shooting star and believed a meteorite lay somewhere between Horsell Ottershaw and Woking Very early in the morning he went out to fi nd it He found it soon after dawn not far from the sand pits A huge hole had been made by its landing The sand had been tossed in every direction into huge piles that could be seen a mile and a half away The grass was on fi re eastward and thin blue smoke rose above it The Thing lay almost completely buried in sand There were scattered splinters of a tree that had shaken to pieces in the meteorite’s falling The uncovered part of the meteor looked like a huge cylinder It was covered with a thick scaly crust It was about thirty yards around Ogilvy approached it but it was so hot that he could not get close A noise came from inside the cylinder He believed it was the cooling of its surface He never thought it might be hollow inside 10