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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
10
Week
2
One
picture
more,
and
then
I
hope
you
will
believe
in
my
fairies.
From
the
cold
garden,
you
run
into
the
house,
and
find
the
fire
laid
indeed
in
the
grate,
but
the
wood
dead
and
the
coals
black,
waiting
to
be
lighted.
You
strike
a
match,
and
soon
there
is
a
blazing
fire.
Where
does
the
heat
come
from?
Why
do
the
coals
burn
and
give
out
a
glowing
light?
Have
you
not
read
of
gnomes
buried
down
deep
in
the
earth,
in
mines,
and
held
fast
there
till
some
fairy
wand
has
released
them,
and
allowed
them
to
come
to
earth
again?
Well,
thousands
and
millions
of
years
ago,
those
coals
were
plants;
and
like
the
snowdrop
in
the
garden
of
to-day,
they
caught
the
sunbeams
and
worked
them
into
their
leaves.
Then
the
plants
died
and
were
buried
deep
in
the
earth
and
the
sunbeams
with
them;
and
like
the
gnomes
they
lay
imprisoned
till
the
coals
were
dug
out
by
the
miners,
and
brought
to
your
grate;
and
just
now
you
yourself
took
hold
of
the
fairy
wand
which
was
to
release
them.
You
struck
a
match,
and
its
atoms
clashing
with
atoms
of
oxygen
in
the
air,
set
the
invisible
fairies
"heat"
and
"chemical
attraction"
to
work,
and
they
were
soon
busy
within
the
wood
and
the
coals
causing
their
atoms
too
to
clash;
and
the
sunbeams,
so
long
imprisoned,
leapt
into
flame.
Then
you
spread
out
your
hands
and
cried,
"Oh,
how
nice
and
warm!"
and
little
thought
that
you
were
warming
yourself
with
the
sunbeams
of
ages
and
ages
ago.
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