Excerpt from The Maker of Moons I was leaning idly on the glass case, watching the keen eyes of the artist in precious metals as he stooped over the gold serpent. A masterpiece he muttered to himself, fondling the glittering coil look at the texture whew But I was not looking at the serpent. Something was moving, - crawling out of God frey's coat pocket, - the pocket nearest to me, something soft and yellow with crab-like legs all covered with coarse yellow hair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.