The Martians seen through the slit

1 Stretched across a fallen beam, the narrator presses his eye to a fresh slit in the rubble

2 Through a triangular slit in the rubble, the huge new crater at Sheen comes into view

3 The narrator watches a five-legged handling-machine pull rods and plates from the cylinder

4 Through a slit, the narrator sees a Martian strain to lift its head-body on its tentacles

5 Seen from the pit's edge, the narrator's grey eyes fill the narrow slit in the rubble.

6 Days later, blood-red weed climbs the pit and hangs in crimson branches round the peephole

7 Inside the wrecked kitchen at Sheen, the curate drags the narrator away from the only peephole.

8 The handling-machine fits plates onto a second machine shaped like itself