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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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But
wait
awhile,
the
deliverer
is
coming.
In
a
few
weeks
or
days,
or
it
may
be
in
a
few
hours,
the
brave
sun
will
shine
down;
the
dull-grey,
leaden
sky
will
melt
before
his,
as
the
hedge
gave
way
before
the
prince
in
the
fairy
tale,
and
when
the
sunbeam
gently
kisses
the
frozen
water
it
will
be
set
free.
Then
the
brook
will
flow
rippling
on
again;
the
frost-drops
will
be
shaken
down
from
the
trees,
the
icicles
fall
from
the
roof,
the
moisture
trickle
down
the
window-pane,
and
in
the
bright,
warm
sunshine
all
will
be
alive
again.
Is
not
this
a
fairy
tale
of
nature?
and
such
as
these
it
is
which
science
tells.
Again,
who
has
not
heard
of
Catskin,
who
came
out
of
a
hollow
tree,
bringing
a
walnut
containing
three
beautiful
dresses
-
the
first
glowing
as
the
sun,
the
second
pale
and
beautiful
as
the
moon,
the
third
spangled
like
the
star-lit
sky,
and
each
so
fine
and
delicate
that
all
three
could
be
packed
into
a
walnut
shell;
and
each
one
of
these
tiny
structures
is
not
the
mere
dress
but
the
home
of
a
living
animal.
It
is
a
tiny,
tiny
shell-palace
made
of
the
most
delicate
lacework,
each
pattern
being
more
beautiful
than
the
last;
and
what
is
more,
the
minute
creature
that
lives
in
it
has
built
it
out
of
the
foam
of
the
sea,
though
he
himself
is
nothing
more
than
a
drop
of
jelly.
Lastly,
anyone
who
has
read
the
'Wonderful
Travellers'
must
recollect
the
man
whose
sight
was
so
keen
that
he
could
hit
the
eye
of
a
fly
sitting
on
a
tree
two
miles
away.
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?
Yet,
if
you
learn
to
use
that
wonderful
instrument
the
spectroscope,
it
will
enable
you
to
tell
one
kind
of
gas
from
another,
even
when
they
are
both
ninety-one
millions
of
miles
away
on
the
face
of
the
sun;
nay
more,
it
will
read
for
you
the
nature
of
the
different
gases
in
the
far
distant
stars,
billions
of
miles
away,
and
actually
tell
you
whether
you
could
find
there
any
of
the
same
metals
which
we
have
on
the
earth.
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