by Mortimer Weisinger
Years ago, when Hugo Gernsback's "Scientific Adventures of Baron
Munchhausen" were appearing serially in the Electrical Experimenter,
it occasionally transpired that an installment was omitted. At such
intervals various ingenious excuses were offered to explain the
missing chapters. Perhaps the gem of them all is the one which we are
reproducing herewith, taken from a 1915 issue.
"Baron Munchhausen, as will be noted, has failed to make his appearance
this month. Urgent wireless telegrams to his chronologist-in-chief,
the Hon. I. M. Alier, of Yankton, Mass., disclosed the fact that the
venerable old gentleman had contracted a virulent case of Atmospheris
Marsianis, which sometimes attacks Interplanetary travellers not
acclimatized to the peculiar Martian air. Mr. Alier, however, states
that Professor Flitternix, the Baron's companion, advises him that
Munchhausen will be back on the job next month. Of course we're sorry,
but what can we do?"
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