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|---|---|
| 37589 | But all this is below ground; where then are our fairy rings? 37589 But, master,"burst forth the lad, now the silence was broken,"tell me why did that strange light of many tints shine upon the dark moon?" |
| 37589 | Can any magic tale be more marvellous, or any thought grander, or more sublime than this? 37589 Did you notice it, Alwyn?" |
| 37589 | I have often told you, boys, have I not? 37589 If we are magicians and work spells under magic glasses, why should not the pixies work spells on the grass? |
| 37589 | What are these streaks? 37589 What are they?" |
| 37589 | All, did I say? |
| 37589 | And now how shall I best give you an idea of what little we do know about this great surging monster of light and heat which shines down upon us? |
| 37589 | And the true horse, where did he arise? |
| 37589 | But now comes the question, How does each stem live after the nourishing threads below have died? |
| 37589 | CHAPTER VII AN EVENING AMONG THE STARS[ Illustration]"Do you love the stars?" |
| 37589 | Can you guess what plants these were? |
| 37589 | Does not the thought fill us with awe, that our little eye should be able to span such vast distances? |
| 37589 | How is it, then, that these moss stems, though each independent, grow in such a dense mass? |
| 37589 | I wonder if it strikes you what a grand discovery this is? |
| 37589 | If I could cross over it and go on and on should I be in a world which had no ending, and what would be on the other side? |
| 37589 | Is not this like magic? |
| 37589 | Looking through the telescope, is it not difficult to imagine how people could ever have pictured them as a man''s face? |
| 37589 | Shall we go up and see it?" |
| 37589 | So having travelled over America, Europe, and Asia, was my quest ended? |
| 37589 | The next question is, What is the mist itself composed of? |
| 37589 | Then it must be made of stars too far off to see? |
| 37589 | These are the chief parts we use in seeing; now how do we use them? |
| 37589 | Was I wrong, then, when I said that my miniature ocean contains as many millions of beings as there are stars in the heavens? |
| 37589 | What can have happened? |
| 37589 | What was he doing? |
| 37589 | What was on the other side of the stile? |
| 37589 | Where have they all come from? |
| 37589 | Where shall we look for the first ancestors of these wild and graceful animals? |
| 37589 | Which of you now can name the pixie who makes them?" |
| 37589 | Who can tell? |
| 37589 | Why do these suns give out such beautiful coloured light? |
| 37589 | Would its light linger even for a moment, like the light of the setting sun? |
| 37589 | Yet to the watchers it was a great matter-- would the star give any further clue to the question of an atmosphere round the moon? |
| 17582 | A_ what_? |
| 17582 | Ah, Mr. Balboa,Johnny would have said,"you want to know what lies off in that direction-- straight across? |
| 17582 | And be late to school? |
| 17582 | And is not that what you want? |
| 17582 | But what can I do, then? |
| 17582 | Ca n''t get over? |
| 17582 | Does he really think, I wonder,said the Alligator to himself,"that he is going to have me for his supper?" |
| 17582 | Done? |
| 17582 | Had we better run? |
| 17582 | I thank you very much, Miss Harper, for reading to us,she said,"Will you please tell me the name of the book?" |
| 17582 | If we were to run all the way, would you be too late? |
| 17582 | Is he coming this way? |
| 17582 | Me? |
| 17582 | Now which one will you have? 17582 O, papa, is n''t that a lovely baby?" |
| 17582 | Shall we just souse her in? |
| 17582 | Well,said the Next Biggest,"she is certainly a dirty little girl, but what''s to be done?" |
| 17582 | What can it be, Hubert? |
| 17582 | What? |
| 17582 | When I came across after breakfast it was there, and now it''s over on the other side, and how can I get back home? |
| 17582 | When will we come to the place? |
| 17582 | Where? 17582 Would a ghost have to carry a light to see by?" |
| 17582 | Would not you rather have that pretty baby than a mirror? |
| 17582 | You will go with me, Andy, wo n''t you? |
| 17582 | After the bears, what shall we hunt? |
| 17582 | And if we did, what good would it do? |
| 17582 | And now, have you had enough water? |
| 17582 | And what do you think I saw in that place I came from? |
| 17582 | But this incident suggests the following question: Ought little girls to be allowed to play out of doors in countries where there are Eagles? |
| 17582 | Can you ride?" |
| 17582 | Did you ever hear the like of that?" |
| 17582 | Did you see that? |
| 17582 | Do n''t you say so? |
| 17582 | Do n''t, eh? |
| 17582 | Do you know where you will be then, Mr. Balboa? |
| 17582 | For instance, why should any bird want to sail about in its nest? |
| 17582 | Have we not, all of us, a great deal to make us happy? |
| 17582 | He knew she meant the noble cavalier, but how should he get word to him? |
| 17582 | How do you suppose he likes it, Young one with annoying paw? |
| 17582 | How would you like to plant the whole garden, some afternoon, with that kind of seed? |
| 17582 | I hope you know where to go to get it?" |
| 17582 | Is it possible to look upon such a magnificent edifice without acknowledging it as the grandest of all churches? |
| 17582 | Is not here a vast and lofty expanse? |
| 17582 | Suppose it is snowing, what will you care? |
| 17582 | Supposing little Johnny Green( we all know him, do n''t we?) |
| 17582 | The subject of his reflections was very simple indeed, for it was nothing more nor less than this-- where should he get his supper? |
| 17582 | Was there nothing to be done? |
| 17582 | What could be more sensible and straightforward than such a plan? |
| 17582 | What could we do? |
| 17582 | What do you say to a hippopotamus? |
| 17582 | What do you suppose it is? |
| 17582 | What do you think of a living thing like this? |
| 17582 | What in the world was to be done? |
| 17582 | What is all that?" |
| 17582 | What pleasure is it to you to go about with a cross or melancholy face? |
| 17582 | What should they do? |
| 17582 | What would you say if you were to pull up such a fish as this on your hook? |
| 17582 | When will you get it for me? |
| 17582 | Where are the clouds? |
| 17582 | Who is afraid of a Butterfly? |
| 17582 | Why? |
| 17582 | [ Illustration] Did you ever see a Continental Soldier? |
| 17582 | [ Illustration] Do without eggs? |
| 17582 | are you going to read to us?" |
| 17582 | said Andrew;"why, what''s the matter?" |
| 17582 | where, papa? |
| 45347 | A week? |
| 45347 | Anarchists? |
| 45347 | And are these, also, electrical in their construction? |
| 45347 | And how about the next three gifts? |
| 45347 | Are these patented? |
| 45347 | Are you ill, Robert? |
| 45347 | Are you sure this will work? |
| 45347 | But electricity is a good thing, you know, and-- and--"Well? |
| 45347 | But how''d ye make out to climb the bluff? |
| 45347 | But suppose,said Rob,"that something important should happen while I''m asleep, or not looking at the box?" |
| 45347 | But what of him? |
| 45347 | But why do you call them foolish experiences? |
| 45347 | But, tell me, can you trust your chief of police? |
| 45347 | Could n''t the tablets be chemically analyzed, and the secret discovered? |
| 45347 | Do you live at Port Orford? |
| 45347 | Dollar Americaine? |
| 45347 | Fine view from here, ai n''t it? |
| 45347 | Have you a rope? |
| 45347 | How are you going? |
| 45347 | How came you here? |
| 45347 | How many dollars is that? |
| 45347 | How much are you worth? |
| 45347 | How much do you charge a day? |
| 45347 | I know that,answered the boy, trembling,"but_ why_ are you here?" |
| 45347 | In time for what? |
| 45347 | Is this President Loubet? |
| 45347 | It was very kind of you,said Edward;"but how did you gain admittance?" |
| 45347 | It''s a fine idea,said the boy;"who discovered it?" |
| 45347 | Kill me dog, will ye-- eh? |
| 45347 | Personally? |
| 45347 | Poison? 45347 Then who are you?" |
| 45347 | This is your invention? |
| 45347 | Well, s''pose we should? |
| 45347 | Were you there? |
| 45347 | Wh-- wh-- what are you g-- g-- going to do? |
| 45347 | Whar''n thunder''d ye come from? |
| 45347 | What are those? |
| 45347 | What are you trying to do, anyhow? |
| 45347 | What are your rates by the day? |
| 45347 | What desire have you? |
| 45347 | What did you say? |
| 45347 | What did you see? |
| 45347 | What do you call that? |
| 45347 | What is it? |
| 45347 | What is? |
| 45347 | What matters a name? 45347 What name, please?" |
| 45347 | What people? |
| 45347 | What right has one person to fly through the air while all his fellow- creatures crawl over the earth''s surface? 45347 What right have you to capture vibrations that radiate from private and secret actions and discover them to others who have no business to know them? |
| 45347 | What shall we do? |
| 45347 | What will you give me first? |
| 45347 | What you make do? |
| 45347 | What''s that? |
| 45347 | Where are we? |
| 45347 | Where can I purchase one? |
| 45347 | Where have you been all day, Robert? |
| 45347 | Where is his residence? |
| 45347 | Where is she, Nell? |
| 45347 | Where to? |
| 45347 | Where''s President Loubet? |
| 45347 | Where''s your balloon? |
| 45347 | Will you remain here while I send for my minister of police? 45347 Yes; they''ve worked up a rather pretty plot, have n''t they?" |
| 45347 | You are satisfied, then? |
| 45347 | After attentively regarding the boy for a time he said, in broken English:"But, M''sieur, how can you fly wizout ze-- ze machine? |
| 45347 | And how do you treat these marvelous gifts? |
| 45347 | And who knows what benefits to humanity may result? |
| 45347 | And why should I be cut off from all the rest of the world because you have given me this confounded traveling machine? |
| 45347 | But how am I to get away from this beastly island? |
| 45347 | But what do you say to the proposition?" |
| 45347 | Do you understand?" |
| 45347 | Finally he leaned back in his chair and asked:"Can you reproduce this scene again?" |
| 45347 | Finally one fat and somewhat aged native, who seemed to be a chief, came close to Rob and said, in broken English:"How get here?" |
| 45347 | Have you ze luggage?" |
| 45347 | How white man come?" |
| 45347 | Is that a center of advanced scientific thought? |
| 45347 | Nice thing for a decent person to own, is n''t it? |
| 45347 | Rob approached him and asked:"Where''s the king to- day?" |
| 45347 | So he said rather anxiously to the chief:"Look here, old fellow; do you want to die?" |
| 45347 | So where''s the harm? |
| 45347 | Tell me, what holds you to the Earth, and makes a stone fall to the ground?" |
| 45347 | That seems reasonable, does n''t it?" |
| 45347 | Their faces fell at this, but one of them said:"Why could n''t we swing ourselves over your shoulders with a rope? |
| 45347 | These things are quite improbable, to be sure; but are they impossible? |
| 45347 | This would be a fine world if every body could peep into every one else''s affairs, would n''t it? |
| 45347 | We have all been dreadfully worried about you, and mother--""Well, what about mother?" |
| 45347 | When he recovered himself the Demon had disappeared--_Tailpiece_ 245[ Illustration] WHO KNOWS? |
| 45347 | Which will it be-- sharks or silence?" |
| 45347 | Who knows? |
| 45347 | Why did you not take your marvels to New York or Chicago; or, if you wished to cross the ocean, to Paris or Vienna?" |
| 45347 | Why did you waste them upon barbarians?" |
| 45347 | Why does n''t the Demon get up a conversation machine that will speak all languages?" |
| 45347 | Why should n''t he spend his summer vacation in pursuit of useful knowledge instead of romping around like ordinary boys?" |
| 45347 | Will you please wear these spectacles for a few moments?" |
| 45347 | You''re the Demon of Electricity, are n''t you?" |
| 45347 | exclaimed the Demon, with a faint sneer;"what does he know?" |
| 45347 | they cried;"are you, too, shipwrecked?" |
| 436 | A week? |
| 436 | Anarchists? |
| 436 | And are these, also, electrical in their construction? |
| 436 | And how about the next three gifts? |
| 436 | Are these patented? |
| 436 | Are you ill, Robert? |
| 436 | Are you sure this will work? |
| 436 | But electricity is a good thing, you know, and-- and--"Well? |
| 436 | But how''d ye make out to climb the bluff? |
| 436 | But suppose,said Rob,"that something important should happen while I''m asleep, or not looking at the box?" |
| 436 | But what of him? |
| 436 | But why do you call them foolish experiences? |
| 436 | But, tell me, can you trust your chief of police? |
| 436 | Could n''t the tablets be chemically analyzed, and the secret discovered? |
| 436 | Do you live at Port Orford? |
| 436 | Dollar Americaine? |
| 436 | Fine view from here, ai n''t it? |
| 436 | Have you a rope? |
| 436 | How are you going? |
| 436 | How came you here? |
| 436 | How many dollars is that? |
| 436 | How much are you worth? |
| 436 | How much do you charge a day? |
| 436 | I know that,answered the boy, trembling,"but WHY are you here?" |
| 436 | In time for what? |
| 436 | Is this President Loubet? |
| 436 | It was very kind of you,said Edward;"but how did you gain admittance?" |
| 436 | It''s a fine idea,said the boy;"who discovered it?" |
| 436 | Kill me dog, will ye-- eh? |
| 436 | Look here, old fellow; do you want to die? |
| 436 | Personally? |
| 436 | Poison? 436 Then who are you?" |
| 436 | This is your invention? |
| 436 | Well, s''pose we should? |
| 436 | Were you there? |
| 436 | Wh-- wh-- what are you g-- g-- going to do? |
| 436 | Whar''n thunder''d ye come from? |
| 436 | What are those? |
| 436 | What are you trying to do, anyhow? |
| 436 | What are your rates by the day? |
| 436 | What desire have you? |
| 436 | What did you say? |
| 436 | What did you see? |
| 436 | What do you call that? |
| 436 | What is it? |
| 436 | What is? |
| 436 | What matters a name? 436 What name, please?" |
| 436 | What people? |
| 436 | What right has one person to fly through the air while all his fellow- creatures crawl over the earth''s surface? 436 What right have you to capture vibrations that radiate from private and secret actions and discover them to others who have no business to know them? |
| 436 | What shall we do? |
| 436 | What will you give me first? |
| 436 | What you make do? |
| 436 | What''s that? |
| 436 | Where are we? |
| 436 | Where can I purchase one? |
| 436 | Where have you been all day, Robert? |
| 436 | Where is his residence? |
| 436 | Where is she, Nell? |
| 436 | Where to? |
| 436 | Where''s President Loubet? |
| 436 | Where''s your balloon? |
| 436 | Will you remain here while I send for my minister of police? 436 Yes; they''ve worked up a rather pretty plot, have n''t they?" |
| 436 | You are satisfied, then? |
| 436 | After attentively regarding the boy for a time he said, in broken English:"But, M''sieur, how can you fly wizout ze-- ze machine? |
| 436 | And how do you treat these marvelous gifts? |
| 436 | And who knows what benefits to humanity may result? |
| 436 | And why should I be cut off from all the rest of the world because you have given me this confounded traveling machine? |
| 436 | But how am I to get away from this beastly island? |
| 436 | But what do you say to the proposition?" |
| 436 | Do you understand?" |
| 436 | Finally he leaned back in his chair and asked:"Can you reproduce this scene again?" |
| 436 | Finally one fat and somewhat aged native, who seemed to be a chief, came close to Rob and said, in broken English:"How get here?" |
| 436 | Have you ze luggage?" |
| 436 | How white man come?" |
| 436 | Is that a center of advanced scientific thought? |
| 436 | Nice thing for a decent person to own, is n''t it? |
| 436 | Rob approached him and asked:"Where''s the king to- day?" |
| 436 | So where''s the harm? |
| 436 | Tell me, what holds you to the Earth, and makes a stone fall to the ground?" |
| 436 | That seems reasonable, does n''t it?" |
| 436 | The Unhappy Fate of the Demon Who Knows? |
| 436 | Their faces fell at this, but one of them said:"Why could n''t we swing ourselves over your shoulders with a rope? |
| 436 | These things are quite improbable, to be sure; but are they impossible? |
| 436 | This would be a fine world if every body could peep into every one else''s affairs, would n''t it? |
| 436 | We have all been dreadfully worried about you, and mother--""Well, what about mother?" |
| 436 | Which will it be-- sharks or silence?" |
| 436 | Who knows? |
| 436 | Why did you not take your marvels to New York or Chicago; or, if you wished to cross the ocean, to Paris or Vienna?" |
| 436 | Why did you waste them upon barbarians?" |
| 436 | Why does n''t the Demon get up a conversation machine that will speak all languages?" |
| 436 | Why should n''t he spend his summer vacation in pursuit of useful knowledge instead of romping around like ordinary boys?" |
| 436 | Will you please wear these spectacles for a few moments?" |
| 436 | You''re the Demon of Electricity, are n''t you?" |
| 436 | exclaimed the Demon, with a faint sneer;"what does he know?" |
| 436 | they cried;"are you, too, shipwrecked?" |
| 5726 | Auntie,she said,"what for it rain inside?" |
| 5726 | 47)? |
| 5726 | Again, if I speak to you, how does the sound reach you ear? |
| 5726 | Again, if I were to put this basin on the stove till all the water had boiled away, where would my drop be then? |
| 5726 | Again, on a windy night have you not heard the wind sounding a wild, sad note down a valley? |
| 5726 | Again, what are those curious sounds you may hear sometimes if you rest your head on a trunk in the forest? |
| 5726 | All this is what is going on outside your ear, but what is happening in your ear itself? |
| 5726 | And have you any curiosity about''Chemical action,''which works such wonders in air, and land, and sea? |
| 5726 | And how do you think it is set going? |
| 5726 | And is there nothing beyond this? |
| 5726 | And now how large do you think they turn out to be? |
| 5726 | And now, can you understand why sea- water should taste salt and bitter? |
| 5726 | And now, what has Ice got to do with the sculpturing of the land? |
| 5726 | And the life of the plant? |
| 5726 | And then say, can you fear for your own little life, even though it may have its troubles? |
| 5726 | And what use is made of the water which we have kept waiting all this time in the leaves? |
| 5726 | And when you arrived there, how large do you think you would find him to be? |
| 5726 | Are not these tiny invisible messengers coming incessantly from the sun as wonderful as any fairies? |
| 5726 | But are they gone for ever? |
| 5726 | But do we know the history of how they are formed, or what is the use of the different parts of the bud? |
| 5726 | But have you never seen this water spell- bound and motionless? |
| 5726 | But how about ice? |
| 5726 | But how about the coal itself? |
| 5726 | But how come they to find any empty space to receive them? |
| 5726 | But how does it grow? |
| 5726 | But how, then, comes it that I can lift it so easily? |
| 5726 | But its own pollen is all gone, how then will it get any? |
| 5726 | But meanwhile, how is new protoplasm to be formed? |
| 5726 | But people often ask, what is the use of learning all this? |
| 5726 | But perhaps you will ask, if no one has ever seen these waves not the ether in which they are made, what right have we to say they are there? |
| 5726 | But tell me, can you see gas before it is lighted, even when it is coming out of the gas- jet close to your eyes? |
| 5726 | But tell me, does it lead you to love my piece of coral? |
| 5726 | But we are as yet no nearer the answer to the question, What is a sunbeam? |
| 5726 | But we have an invisible veil protecting us, made- of what do you think? |
| 5726 | But we will not be like these, we will open our eyes and ask,"What are these forces or fairies, and how can we see them?" |
| 5726 | But what becomes of the carbon? |
| 5726 | But what becomes of the dissolved chalk and other substances? |
| 5726 | But what fairies are they which have been at work here? |
| 5726 | But what has this to do with sculpture or cutting out of valleys? |
| 5726 | But what is it that has changed these beds of dead plants into hard, stony coal? |
| 5726 | But when it joins itself in this way to its companions, from whom it was parted for a time, does it come back clear and transparent as it left them? |
| 5726 | But where are the anthers, and where is the stigma? |
| 5726 | But where does the heat come from which makes this water invisible? |
| 5726 | But why should the primroses have such golden crowns? |
| 5726 | Can science bring any tale to match this? |
| 5726 | Can you help feeling a part of this guided and governed nature? |
| 5726 | Can you imagine these water- particles, just above any pond or lake, rising up and getting entangled among the air- atoms? |
| 5726 | Can you picture tiny sunbeam- waves of light and heat travelling from the sun to the earth? |
| 5726 | Can you tell me why it grows? |
| 5726 | Did you ever try to run races on a very windy day? |
| 5726 | Do these then too make waves all across the enormous distance between them and us? |
| 5726 | Do they come from the glass? |
| 5726 | Do you care to know how another strange fairy,''Electricity,''flings the lightning across the sky and causes the rumbling thunder? |
| 5726 | Do you know why we hear a buzzing, as the gnat, the bee, or the cockchafer fly past? |
| 5726 | Do you never feel tired and"out of sorts,"and want to creep away from your companions, because they are merry and you are not? |
| 5726 | Do you not remember that the air- atoms are always trying to fly apart, and are only kept pressed together by the weight of air above them? |
| 5726 | Do you remember how we noticed at the beginning of the lecture that a bee always likes to visit the same kind of plant in one journey? |
| 5726 | Do you see now how foolish it is to live in rooms that are closely shut up, or to hide your head under the bedclothes when you sleep? |
| 5726 | Do you think we have now rightly answered the question- What is a sunbeam? |
| 5726 | First, then, can we discover what air is? |
| 5726 | For where in the whole world, except indeed upon an anthill, can we find so busy, so industrious, or so orderly a community as among the bees? |
| 5726 | Had not even this little child some real picture in her mind of invisible water coming from her mouth, and making drops upon the window- pane? |
| 5726 | Have we anything like them living in the world now? |
| 5726 | Have you any picture in your mind of the coral animal, its home, or its manner of working? |
| 5726 | Have you ever amused yourself with trying how many different sounds you can distinguish if you listen at an open window in a busy street? |
| 5726 | Have you ever heard that invisible waves are travelling every second over the space between the sun and us? |
| 5726 | Have you ever seen the little club moss or Lycopodium which grows all over England, but chiefly in the north, on heaths and mountains? |
| 5726 | Have you ever thought why dew forms, or what power has been at work scattering the sparkling drops upon the grass? |
| 5726 | Have you ever tried to pick limpets off a rock? |
| 5726 | Have you forgotten our giant force,"gravitation,"which draws things together from a distance? |
| 5726 | Have you never watched the waves breaking upon a beach in a heavy storm? |
| 5726 | Have you not observed that different flowers open and close at different times? |
| 5726 | Having now learned what air is, the next question which presents itself is, Why does it stay round our earth? |
| 5726 | Hearken to the brook as it flows by, watch the flower- buds opening one by one, and then ask yourself,"How all this is done?" |
| 5726 | How did they come there? |
| 5726 | How do these blows of the air speak to your brain? |
| 5726 | How far away from us do you think he is? |
| 5726 | How has all this history been worked out from the shapeless stone? |
| 5726 | How have these crystals been built up? |
| 5726 | How is it then, that if all these different waves making different colours, hit on our eye, they do not always make us see coloured light? |
| 5726 | How is it to get this water up into the stem and leaves, seeing that the whole plant is made of closed bags or cells? |
| 5726 | How will the bee touch them? |
| 5726 | How, then, has the sound been produced? |
| 5726 | If I put it in the sunlight which is streaming through the window, what happens? |
| 5726 | If the air gets less and less dense as it is farther from the earth, where does it stop altogether? |
| 5726 | If you have any wish to know and make friends of these invisible forces, the next question is How are you to enter the fairy- land of science? |
| 5726 | Is coal made of burnt plants, then? |
| 5726 | Is it not that things happen so suddenly, so mysteriously, and without man having anything to do with it? |
| 5726 | Is not the sunbeam so dear to us that it has become a household word for all that is merry and gay? |
| 5726 | Is not this a fairy tale of nature? |
| 5726 | Is not this wonderful, going on as it does at every sound you hear? |
| 5726 | It seems likely, when we find roots below and leaves and stems above, that the middle is made of plants, but can we prove it? |
| 5726 | Now look at my plant again, and tell me if we have not already found a curious history? |
| 5726 | Now, do you believe in, and care for, my fairy- land? |
| 5726 | Now, has it ever occurred to you to think what sounds is, and how it is that we hear all these things? |
| 5726 | Stop for a moment and rest, and ask yourself, what is the wind? |
| 5726 | Tell me, have you any idea where this drop has been? |
| 5726 | Tell me, why do you love fairy- land? |
| 5726 | Tell me; what has become of the rain- drops? |
| 5726 | The next question is, what kind of plants were these? |
| 5726 | The sun is more than ninety- one millions of miles away; how has he touched the rain- drops? |
| 5726 | The waves, however, do not only roar as they dash on the ground; have you never noticed how they seem to scream as they draw back down the beach? |
| 5726 | Upon what then is the plant to live? |
| 5726 | Week 12 Can we form any idea why the crystals build themselves up so systematically? |
| 5726 | Week 18 But why then do we not hear all sounds as music? |
| 5726 | Week 9 But why will it not remain more than 30 inches high in the tube? |
| 5726 | What are these colours? |
| 5726 | What are they doing there? |
| 5726 | What do you think is the reason of this? |
| 5726 | What fairies are at work here? |
| 5726 | What forms will it take before it reappears in the rain- cloud, the river, or the sparkling dew? |
| 5726 | What has been happening here? |
| 5726 | What has been happening here? |
| 5726 | What is it, and why is this protoplasm always active and busy? |
| 5726 | What is that note answering her? |
| 5726 | What is their use? |
| 5726 | What is this little green tip peeping up out of the ground under the snowy covering? |
| 5726 | What makes it become larger? |
| 5726 | What makes the air restless? |
| 5726 | What power has been at work arranging their delicate forms? |
| 5726 | What will happen when they get there? |
| 5726 | What, then, becomes of all this water? |
| 5726 | What, you will ask, is this too the work of the sunbeams? |
| 5726 | When you have reached and entered the gates of science, how are you to use and enjoy this new and beautiful land? |
| 5726 | Where do the drops come from? |
| 5726 | Where does the heat come from? |
| 5726 | Where would it go? |
| 5726 | Who can say that he is not a great invisible giant, always silently and invisibly toiling in great things and small whether we wake or sleep? |
| 5726 | Why am I not conscious of the weight? |
| 5726 | Why are some mere noise, and others clear musical notes? |
| 5726 | Why do the coals burn and give out a glowing light? |
| 5726 | Why do you think it sounds so much louder and more musical here than when it is blowing across the plain? |
| 5726 | Why does it blow sometimes one way and sometimes another, and sometimes not at all? |
| 5726 | Why does it sing so sweetly, while the wide deep river makes no noise? |
| 5726 | Why is this? |
| 5726 | Why is this? |
| 5726 | Why is this? |
| 5726 | Why is this? |
| 5726 | Why is this? |
| 5726 | Why is this? |
| 5726 | Why should it sound in one particular tone when all kinds of sound- waves must be surging about in the disturbed air? |
| 5726 | Why, then, do not all the atoms of oxygen and nitrogen fly away from our earth into space, and leave us without any air? |
| 5726 | Why? |
| 5726 | Yes, but how? |
| 5726 | You have surely heard of gravitation, by which the sun holds the earth and the planets, and keeps them moving round him in regular order? |
| 5726 | and why are they round, or rather slightly oval? |
| 5726 | and why have the things in the room become visible by such slow degrees? |
| 5726 | do you see now the reason why pan- pipes give different sounds, or even the hole at the end of a common key when you blow across it? |
| 5726 | how does the sun touch our earth? |
| 5726 | or if they were behind a hedge, and he could not see them, would not the sweet scent tell him where to come and look for them? |
| 5726 | what changes it has undergone, and what work it has been doing during all the long ages that water has lain on the face of the earth? |
| 5726 | what is its charm? |
| 5726 | what makes it spread out its leaves and add to its stalk day by day? |
| 5726 | where it finds its food? |
| 5726 | why should it not lie still all round the earth? |
| 36189 | ''Then what are you doing here?'' 36189 ''What was it?'' |
| 36189 | = Roger.="And you answered him? |
| 36189 | A telegram? |
| 36189 | Ah, you are going to draw? |
| 36189 | Ah, you love drawing? |
| 36189 | Albert, your son? |
| 36189 | Albert,said Monsieur Dalize, showing Monsieur Roger to his son,"why do n''t you salute our friend Roger?" |
| 36189 | And afterwards? |
| 36189 | And how did we leave the farm? |
| 36189 | And it turns as swiftly as you say? |
| 36189 | And now that it remains on the surface of the water, that it no longer precipitates itself towards the earth, it is no longer a heavy body? |
| 36189 | And so you understood him? |
| 36189 | And the cause of this joy? |
| 36189 | And then your process, your discovery, succeeded entirely? |
| 36189 | And what are you going to do over there? |
| 36189 | And what does this paper say? |
| 36189 | And what is that? |
| 36189 | And what is that? |
| 36189 | And who is this happy little mortal? |
| 36189 | And why are you very glad? |
| 36189 | And why not, papa? |
| 36189 | And why this sudden sadness? |
| 36189 | And you have noticed that too, Miette? |
| 36189 | And you too, Paul, do n''t you want to embrace our friend? |
| 36189 | And, in order to give you the pleasure of seeing this, I suppose you would like an air- pump? |
| 36189 | Are you going on foot? |
| 36189 | Are you reproaching me for waking up too late? |
| 36189 | Asphyxia? |
| 36189 | Because----"Because what? |
| 36189 | But have you seen the birth- register of Paul Solange? |
| 36189 | But how is that? |
| 36189 | But what would Paul say? |
| 36189 | But whence could such a change have come? |
| 36189 | But why,she asked,"is that physical science? |
| 36189 | But you will tell it to no one? |
| 36189 | But your telegram? |
| 36189 | But, mamma, I am sure that Paul would have answered the same as I did:--would you not, Paul? |
| 36189 | But,continued Paul,"how did we get back here?" |
| 36189 | But,said Miette,"is there no danger that the moon may fall some time?" |
| 36189 | Can Miss Miette explain to me what she has just seen? |
| 36189 | Certainly,said Miette;"what shall I bring you?" |
| 36189 | Did it fall to the ground? |
| 36189 | Did you see? |
| 36189 | Do you also remark the flame and the smoke which are rising up the chimney? |
| 36189 | Does Miss Miette think, then,said Monsieur Roger,"that if the cloud fell rain would fall?" |
| 36189 | Does air weigh much? |
| 36189 | Excuse me, Monsieur Roger,said Albert Dalize:"how can nitrogen enter into our food?" |
| 36189 | Good enough to what? 36189 Has Monsieur Solange failed?" |
| 36189 | Has the postman not been here yet? |
| 36189 | Have I seen it? 36189 He would be able to raise the glass,"said Miss Miette, in a questioning tone,"but he can not lift the air above it?" |
| 36189 | How did you measure the tower? |
| 36189 | How long a time is it,said he,"since I have had the pleasure of seeing your excellent father?" |
| 36189 | How so? |
| 36189 | How? |
| 36189 | I ask if your grief-- without your knowing it, perhaps-- may not have been revived by the happiness which reigns around you? 36189 I do n''t understand what you mean?" |
| 36189 | I now return to Miss Miette''s question,--''Why is lead heavier than cork?'' 36189 I, suffering?" |
| 36189 | Impossible? |
| 36189 | In a moment? |
| 36189 | In fact, it is too heavy,said Monsieur Roger;"but tell me, what is it that is too heavy?" |
| 36189 | Is it a heavy body? |
| 36189 | Is it of that moon that you are speaking,--the moon which turns around us? |
| 36189 | Is it true, Monsieur Roger,said Miette,"that it is with this machine that you can make smoke fall?" |
| 36189 | Is this Monsieur Roger? |
| 36189 | Mamma, Mamma,she cried,"what is the matter?" |
| 36189 | May I ask what prize Master Paul Solange has obtained? |
| 36189 | May I try to exhaust it? |
| 36189 | Miette,said she,"can not you do that little sum for us, my child?" |
| 36189 | Miette? |
| 36189 | Monsieur Roger,said Miette,"is not smoke a substance?" |
| 36189 | Must n''t he, papa? 36189 Of two gases!--water?" |
| 36189 | Say, Paul,she asked, from one end of the table to the other,"how many prizes did you take this year?" |
| 36189 | So you also,said he, smiling,--"you also are trying to puzzle me?" |
| 36189 | String, yes; but where can I get lead? |
| 36189 | Take away the air? |
| 36189 | That is true, sir; but why is it? |
| 36189 | That is true,said Miette;"why does not the moon fall?" |
| 36189 | That? 36189 The weight of the air? |
| 36189 | Then it was a heavy body? |
| 36189 | Then there were no accidents? |
| 36189 | Then, may I ask you where you are going so early in the morning? |
| 36189 | Then, what is it that is so heavy? |
| 36189 | Then,continued Miss Miette,"it is Mr. Roger who is going to arrive here?" |
| 36189 | Then,said Miette,"if we detach the sinkers, they would fall, and would join each other exactly at the centre of the earth?" |
| 36189 | Then,said he, expressing the idea which was uppermost,--"Then it is physical science?" |
| 36189 | There is an opening? |
| 36189 | This length of twine,he said,"represents exactly the height of the tower, does it not?" |
| 36189 | Towards the centre of the earth? |
| 36189 | Up above? |
| 36189 | Very well, sir? |
| 36189 | Well, Master Paul, will you be so kind,asked Monsieur Roger,"as to allow me to go with you and explore this old tower?" |
| 36189 | Well, Paul,said she,"is not that certain?" |
| 36189 | Well, Peter,said the gentleman,"have the papers come?" |
| 36189 | Well, do you know why Monsieur Roger, at the fire at the farm, called me-- called me George? |
| 36189 | Well, my dear Paul,said Monsieur Dalize,"how are you at present?" |
| 36189 | Well, my dear friend, the change which we have noticed in you for some time is not my fault, is it? 36189 Well, papa will buy me one.--Say, papa, wo n''t you do it, so we may see the smoke fall?" |
| 36189 | Well, then, what is your last question? |
| 36189 | Well, then, wo n''t you show that to us? |
| 36189 | Well, what was it? |
| 36189 | Well? |
| 36189 | Well? |
| 36189 | What are the lungs, and why is it necessary to introduce air into them? 36189 What are you doing?" |
| 36189 | What do you mean? |
| 36189 | What do you think of that? |
| 36189 | What do you wish, papa? |
| 36189 | What has happened? |
| 36189 | What has she said to you? |
| 36189 | What is it? |
| 36189 | What is it? |
| 36189 | What is it? |
| 36189 | What is that? |
| 36189 | What is the matter, my child? |
| 36189 | What is the matter? |
| 36189 | What is the matter? |
| 36189 | What is the matter? |
| 36189 | What is the matter? |
| 36189 | What other name? |
| 36189 | What weight is it? |
| 36189 | What, my friend? |
| 36189 | What, then, is the cause of this production of carbonic acid? |
| 36189 | Where are you going? |
| 36189 | Where can it be? |
| 36189 | Where is he? |
| 36189 | Who knows? |
| 36189 | Why can not you fulfil it? 36189 Why do you say things like that to me?" |
| 36189 | Why do you think that I love Monsieur Roger in the manner that you have just said? |
| 36189 | Why does the lead fall to the bottom of the water, and why does the cork not fall? |
| 36189 | Why has the candle gone out? |
| 36189 | Why is a candle put out by blowing on it, and why do they light a fire by doing the same thing? |
| 36189 | Why should I be displeased at meeting you? |
| 36189 | Why should Paul please me more than Albert? |
| 36189 | Why, I think----"What do you think? |
| 36189 | Why, please? |
| 36189 | Why, what is the matter, Paul? |
| 36189 | Why,asked Monsieur Roger,"does the paper reach the ground as soon as the coin?" |
| 36189 | Why? |
| 36189 | Why? |
| 36189 | Why? |
| 36189 | Why? |
| 36189 | Will that first train be the eleven- o''clock train? |
| 36189 | With Paul? |
| 36189 | Without descending? |
| 36189 | Yes, it is a gas; and Miette, I suppose, will want to ask me,''What is gas?'' |
| 36189 | Yes,said the latter:"why does water put out fire?" |
| 36189 | You are going out walking without me? |
| 36189 | You are sure? |
| 36189 | You do n''t know? 36189 You have climbed up the tower?" |
| 36189 | You have not understood? |
| 36189 | You know? |
| 36189 | You love him very, very much? |
| 36189 | You promise? |
| 36189 | You remarked something? |
| 36189 | You still doubt? 36189 You think that Paul is your son? |
| 36189 | You told us that we swallowed oxygen and gave out carbonic acid; and you also said,''Whence comes this carbonic acid? 36189 You want to know what it is that makes me so happy?" |
| 36189 | You wanted me, father? |
| 36189 | Your son? |
| 36189 | A PROOF? |
| 36189 | A Proof? |
| 36189 | A hundred feet?" |
| 36189 | Albert looked at his father, and answered,--"Then you refuse?" |
| 36189 | Albert thought for a moment; then he said,--"About Monsieur Roger?" |
| 36189 | An old servant came up and said,--"What will you take this morning, sir?" |
| 36189 | And Paul counted,--"Sixty- one, sixty- two,--sixty- two feet----""And?" |
| 36189 | And as the gentleman, who did not seem to be hungry, was thinking what he wanted, the servant added,--"Coffee, soup, tea?" |
| 36189 | And did not this help come, this sudden force, when he felt himself called? |
| 36189 | And do you know why it turns around us, a prisoner of that earth from which it seeks continually to fly in a straight line? |
| 36189 | And in this concise answer she meant to say,"In all that, what do you see that is connected with chemistry or physical science?" |
| 36189 | And on what do you found this improbable, this impossible belief? |
| 36189 | And the eyes of Miette seemed to answer,"But George? |
| 36189 | And what flesh do we chiefly eat? |
| 36189 | And what then?" |
| 36189 | And, in the first place, how is this air introduced? |
| 36189 | And, turning around to his daughter, he continued,--"What would you like to have?" |
| 36189 | And, with a kindly smile, he added,"How did you come to recognize me, Miss Miette?" |
| 36189 | Are you displeased to meet me?" |
| 36189 | Are you satisfied?" |
| 36189 | At last he murmured,--"You have the proofs?" |
| 36189 | At the end of a minute, she stammered,--"Why, sir, you know me, then, also?" |
| 36189 | But Paul? |
| 36189 | But do you love him as much as if he----?" |
| 36189 | But how had he been called? |
| 36189 | But how is it he does not awake?" |
| 36189 | But the air which had disappeared from the globe, where had it gone to? |
| 36189 | But what air?" |
| 36189 | But what help could they expect? |
| 36189 | But who was it?" |
| 36189 | But why do you ask me such questions?" |
| 36189 | But you are sure that he ran out of the tower, are you not?" |
| 36189 | Can Miss Miette procure for me two pieces of string and two heavy bodies,--for example, small pieces of lead?" |
| 36189 | Did they see me also for the last time? |
| 36189 | Did this cork fall just now upon the ground?" |
| 36189 | Did you not say that you were to remain another six months, and perhaps a year, in Texas?" |
| 36189 | Do n''t we often call alcohol''spirits of wine''? |
| 36189 | Do you remember the trap- door that I showed you? |
| 36189 | Do you see that a portion of the wood is reduced to ashes?" |
| 36189 | Do you understand?" |
| 36189 | Do you want to have it proved to you?" |
| 36189 | George? |
| 36189 | Had he heard nothing? |
| 36189 | Had he remained in the turret? |
| 36189 | He asked,--"How did we leave the farm- house? |
| 36189 | He asked,--"Why are you here, Monsieur Roger?" |
| 36189 | He bent over to Monsieur Dalize, and asked,--"Where is Paul''s father?" |
| 36189 | He held Albert in his arms, embraced him, and said to him,--"But, tell me, where is Paul?" |
| 36189 | He said to the man,--"You can carry back an answer, can you not?" |
| 36189 | How does it happen that you are here already?" |
| 36189 | How were we saved?" |
| 36189 | However, this thought which had taken possession of him, this overwhelming idea of happiness, was it even admissible? |
| 36189 | I am sure that he is just as anxious as I am to see smoke fall.--Are you not, Paul?" |
| 36189 | I have no one else in the world; and does not Mariette represent both of you? |
| 36189 | I suppose you will ask me what is the use of this gas, and why it enters into the composition of the air? |
| 36189 | I wrote to you,--don''t you remember?" |
| 36189 | In great astonishment Madame Dalize asked, addressing herself rather to her daughter than to her husband,--"What is the matter?" |
| 36189 | Is he not in the parlor with you?" |
| 36189 | Is it finished?" |
| 36189 | Is it not enough to make you crazy? |
| 36189 | Is not that true?" |
| 36189 | It was not a dream?" |
| 36189 | It was now the father''s turn to look at his child, and, with pleased surprise, he said,--"What? |
| 36189 | Lastly, why this cry of"George?" |
| 36189 | Madame Dalize was silent for an instant, then, suddenly remembering, she said,--"Roger,--are you speaking of Roger?" |
| 36189 | Master Paul wants me to explain to him how I learned the height of the tower Heurtebize?" |
| 36189 | May I come there at once?" |
| 36189 | Miette perceived this sudden change, and, full of uneasiness, cried out,--"Why, what is the matter?" |
| 36189 | Miette then came forward towards her friend Roger, and said to him, without any hesitation,--"Paul asks that you will explain to him about the tower?" |
| 36189 | Miette, abashed by this scrutiny, drew back a little, and said, with hesitation,--"Tell me: you are surely Monsieur Roger?" |
| 36189 | Miss Miette took a step forward, looked at Paul with an uneasy air, and said,--"Are you sick, my little Paul?" |
| 36189 | Monsieur Dalize had approached and asked,--"Has he passed a good night?" |
| 36189 | Monsieur Roger asked, in an indifferent tone,--"What is physical science?" |
| 36189 | Monsieur Roger asked,--"How old is Albert at present?" |
| 36189 | Monsieur Roger made a sign to Albert, and the latter spoke:"Well, do you remember the turret, where we had our rooms? |
| 36189 | Now does Miss Miette know what matter is?" |
| 36189 | Now let us pass to the second question: Why is it necessary to introduce air into the lungs?" |
| 36189 | Now, this time,"asked Monsieur Roger, pausing,"have I made myself understood?" |
| 36189 | Now, what had become of the other sixty- one pounds? |
| 36189 | Now, what is going on in the interior of each cylinder? |
| 36189 | Now, what is it going to do with this old matter? |
| 36189 | Now, would you like to know what further clue I have? |
| 36189 | Now, you think, I suppose, that that smoke rises in the globe?" |
| 36189 | Or does it come from the surroundings in which you find yourself placed?" |
| 36189 | PAUL OR GEORGE? |
| 36189 | Paul asked,--"How high is this tower? |
| 36189 | Paul or George? |
| 36189 | Paul stopped, and in his surprise could not help saying,--"Monsieur Roger, already up?" |
| 36189 | Shall I go up and find the album?" |
| 36189 | She approached, passed her arm in Paul''s, and said, softly,--"You love him very much,--Monsieur Roger?" |
| 36189 | Still----""Still, what?" |
| 36189 | The calculation which I had to make was easy, was it not?" |
| 36189 | The man advanced, and, feeling in a bag suspended at his side, he said,--"Monsieur Dalize, I believe?" |
| 36189 | Then Paul said, softly,--"The tower is sixty feet high?" |
| 36189 | Then she added,"If, instead of letting these bits of lead fall upon the ground, we let them fall in water?" |
| 36189 | Then she turned to Paul, and said,--"But the one who called to you? |
| 36189 | Then, seeing that Monsieur Roger was ready to smile, and mistaking the cause of this smile, he said,--"You are joking, are you not? |
| 36189 | Then, with an anxious voice, he asked,--"And Albert?" |
| 36189 | To whom could you confide such absurd ideas?" |
| 36189 | Was he asleep? |
| 36189 | Was it not in fact folly which had led him suddenly to recognize in the features of Paul Solange those of Madame Roger La Morlière? |
| 36189 | Was it true? |
| 36189 | Was the poor boy still asleep? |
| 36189 | We are carnivorous, are we not? |
| 36189 | We made a roll- call: how many were wanting? |
| 36189 | We were wrong, then, when we said that this same cork is a heavy body?" |
| 36189 | Were we lost? |
| 36189 | Were you not struck with it? |
| 36189 | What difference was there? |
| 36189 | What had become of it?" |
| 36189 | What has happened to you?" |
| 36189 | What is the matter with you?" |
| 36189 | What is there so difficult about it?" |
| 36189 | What were we risking? |
| 36189 | What would Paul say?" |
| 36189 | What?" |
| 36189 | Whence come these extra seven ounces? |
| 36189 | Whence this sudden and great affection which Monsieur Roger had shown him? |
| 36189 | Where does that come from? |
| 36189 | Where has it gone?" |
| 36189 | Where will it burn it? |
| 36189 | Where will it find it? |
| 36189 | Where would my money be better placed?" |
| 36189 | Why do bodies fall?" |
| 36189 | Why does it not slide or fly away? |
| 36189 | Why does not the moon fall?" |
| 36189 | Why does this table, around which we find ourselves, remain in the same place? |
| 36189 | Why had Monsieur Roger so bravely risked his life to save him? |
| 36189 | Why had his emotion been so great? |
| 36189 | Why is it chemistry?" |
| 36189 | Why that sympathy which he knew to be profound and whose cause he could not explain, as he did not merit it a bit more than his friend Albert? |
| 36189 | Will you allow us to do so?" |
| 36189 | Without that how can I make you believe that the moon does not fall and that it does fall?" |
| 36189 | Wo n''t you tell me now what it is that you are suffering, or what secret is torturing you?" |
| 36189 | Would Paul remember how and by whom he had been borne from the torpor which was strangling him? |
| 36189 | Would he remember that cry,--that name which had had the miraculous power to awake him, to bring him back to life? |
| 36189 | Yet, in spite of all, Monsieur Roger said to himself, deep down in his heart,--"If it were my son?" |
| 36189 | You can not know that the tower is really sixty feet high?" |
| 36189 | You do n''t doubt that?" |
| 36189 | You have retained that foolish idea? |
| 36189 | You know?" |
| 36189 | You think that Paul----?" |
| 36189 | You understand, do n''t you?" |
| 36189 | You understand?" |
| 36189 | Your father has often spoken of you in his letters; and has he not sent me also several of your photographs when I asked for them?" |
| 36189 | [ Illustration]"How do you mean?" |
| 36189 | [ Illustration]"Now, where has all the joy of the morning fled, my friend?" |
| 36189 | and the boats which contained our wives, our children,--had those boats found a refuge? |
| 36189 | as there is none for you, why should there be danger for me?" |
| 36189 | cried Monsieur Roger;"what can we do? |
| 36189 | did they not find him?" |
| 36189 | had they reached land anywhere? |
| 36189 | has Miss Miette already made her choice?" |
| 36189 | is it not Monsieur Roger?" |
| 36189 | murmured Miette, disappointed; and, as Monsieur Roger kept silent, she added,"What is density?" |
| 36189 | must n''t Monsieur Roger explain?" |
| 36189 | said Monsieur Dalize;"how can we introduce here instruments of physical science during vacation? |
| 36189 | she cried:"are you sick?" |
| 36189 | that is what I tell myself; and still----""And still?" |
| 36189 | what does this drawing represent? |