New York now stopped its discussion of human slavery, the high cost of living--apples cost as much as four cents apiece in Wall Street--and other familiar topics, and devoted its talking hours to the man-bats of the moon. The _Sun_ was stormed by people who wanted back numbers of the stories, and flooded with demands by mail. As the text of the _Journal of Science_ article indicated that the original narrative had been illustrated, there was a cry for pictures. Mr. Day was busy with the paper and its overworked press, but he gave Mr. Locke a free hand, and that scholar took to Norris & Baker, lithographers, in the Union Building, Wall Street, the drawings which had been intrusted to his care by the “medical gentleman immediately from Scotland.” Mr. Baker, described by the _Sun_ as quite the most talented lithographic artist of the city, worked day and night on his delightful task, that the illustrations might be ready when the _Sun’s_ press should have turned out, in the hours when it was not printing _Suns_, a pamphlet containing the astronomical discoveries. “Dr. Herschel’s great work,” said the _Sun_, “is preparing for publication at ten guineas sterling, or fifty dollars; and we shall give all the popular substance of it for twelve or thirteen cents.” The pamphlets were to be sold two for a quarter; the lithographs at twenty-five cents for the set. Most newspapers that mentioned the discovery of human creatures on the moon were credulous. The _Evening Post_, edited by William Cullen Bryant and Fitz-Greene Halleck--“the chanting cherubs of the _Post_,” as Colonel Webb was wont to call them--only skirted the edge of doubt: That there should be winged people in the moon does not strike us as more wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on earth; and that there does or did exist such a race rests on the evidence of that most veracious of voyagers, _Peter Wilkins_, whose celebrated work not only gives an account of the general appearance and habits of a most interesting tribe of flying Indians, but also of those more delicate and engaging traits which the author was enabled to discover by reason of the conjugal relations he entered into with one of the females of the winged tribe. _Peter Wilkins_ was the hero of Robert Paltock’s imaginative book, “The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man,” published in London in 1750. Paltock’s winged people, said Southey, were “the most beautiful creatures of imagination that were ever devised.” The instalment of the discoveries printed on August 29 revealed to the reader the great Temple of the Moon, built of polished sapphire, with a roof of some yellow metal, supported by columns seventy feet high and six feet in diameter: