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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
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And
now,
suppose
that
this
snow-shower
has
fallen
early
in
February;
turn
aside
for
a
moment
from
examining
the
flakes,
and
clear
the
newly-fallen
snow
from
off
the
flower-bed
on
the
lawn.
What
is
this
little
green
tip
peeping
up
out
of
the
ground
under
the
snowy
covering?
It
is
a
young
snowdrop
plant.
Can
you
tell
me
why
it
grows?
where
it
finds
its
food?
what
makes
it
spread
out
its
leaves
and
add
to
its
stalk
day
by
day?
What
fairies
are
at
work
here?
First
there
is
the
hidden
fairy
"life,"
and
of
her
even
our
wisest
men
know
but
little.
But
they
know
something
of
her
way
of
working,
and
in
Lecture
VII
we
shall
learn
how
the
invisible
fairy
sunbeams
have
been
buy
here
also;
how
last
year's
snowdrop
plant
caught
them
and
stored
them
up
in
it's
bulb,
and
how
now
in
the
spring,
as
soon
as
warmth
and
moisture
creep
down
into
the
earth,
these
little
imprisoned
sun-waves
begin
to
be
active,
stirring
up
the
matter
in
the
bulb,
and
making
it
swell
and
burst
upwards
till
it
sends
out
a
little
shoot
through
the
surface
of
the
soil.
Then
the
sun-waves
above-ground
take
up
the
work,
and
form
green
granules
in
the
tiny
leaves,
helping
them
to
take
food
out
of
the
air,
while
the
little
rootlets
below
are
drinking
water
out
of
the
ground.
The
invisible
life
and
invisible
sunbeams
are
busy
here,
setting
actively
to
work
another
fairy,
the
force
of
"chemical
attraction,"
and
so
the
little
snowdrop
plant
grows
and
blossoms,
without
any
help
from
you
or
me.
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