Freddy and Jinx sang all the way home.
“Oh, how beautiful seems the scenery
As we return to a happy Beanery,” Jinx sang.
“We’re going to visit all the planets
So wash your shirt and press your panits,” Freddy replied.
For he now had begun to work on an idea which became later so profitable to him: the space cruises in Uncle Ben’s rocket, organized under the name of Bean, Peppercorn, Bean and Bean. Which is to say Benjamin Bean, Mrs. Peppercorn, William F. Bean and Frederick Bean.
When they reached the farm, Uncle Ben drove into the barnyard and stopped the car. As they got out, Freddy looked up into the sky, which was glittering with stars. “Well, there she is,” he said. “There’s New Beanland.”
“Sure of that?” Old Whibley asked. “Sure it isn’t the earth, and this isn’t the planet you were aiming at?”
Uncle Ben shook his head. “Ain’t sure yet,” he said. “Might be the same.”
“That’s just it,” said the owl. “Mars and the earth might be just the same—same seas and continents, same trees and animals, exactly the same people. You’ll never know, pig. And that’s a thought for you to sleep on.” He spread his wings and drifted off into the night.
“Well,” said Jinx, “whether the earth, or whether New Beania
I’m awful glad I’ve been and seen ya.”
“Maybe I’m really on Mars after all,” Freddy thought. “Maybe Whibley’s right, and we got there and don’t know it.” This speculation worried him; after he got into his comfortable bed in the pig pen it kept him awake for nearly five minutes.
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