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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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A
little
foreign
niece
of
mine,
only
four
years
old,
who
could
scarcely
speak
English
plainly,
was
standing
one
morning
near
the
bedroom
window
and
she
noticed
the
damp
trickling
down
the
window-pane.
"Auntie,"
she
said,
"what
for
it
rain
inside?"
It
was
quite
useless
to
explain
to
her
in
words,
how
our
breath
had
condensed
into
drops
of
water
upon
the
cold
glass;
but
I
wiped
the
pane
clear,
and
breathed
on
it
several
times.
When
new
drops
were
formed,
I
said,
"Cissy
and
auntie
have
done
like
this
all
night
in
the
room."
She
nodded
her
little
head
and
amused
herself
for
a
long
time
breathing
on
the
window-pane
and
watching
the
tiny
drops;
and
about
a
month
later,
when
we
were
travelling
back
to
Italy,
I
saw
her
following
the
drops
on
the
carriage
window
with
her
little
finger,
and
heard
her
say
quietly
to
herself,
"Cissy
and
auntie
made
you."
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?
Then
again,
you
must
learn
something
of
the
language
of
science.
If
you
travel
in
a
country
with
no
knowledge
of
its
language,
you
can
learn
very
little
about
it:
and
in
the
same
way
if
you
are
to
go
to
books
to
find
answers
to
your
questions,
you
must
know
something
of
the
language
they
speak.
You
need
not
learn
hard
scientific
names,
for
the
best
books
have
the
fewest
of
these,
but
you
must
really
understand
what
is
meant
by
ordinary
words.
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