CHAP. VI.] SWEDISH TURNIPS. 2t>5 



one that grows in the dark will be yellow. When 

 my son, JAMES, was about three years old, 

 LORD COCHRANE, lying against a green bank 

 in the garden with him, had asked him many 

 questions about the sky, and the river, and the 

 sun and the moon, in order to learn what were 

 the notions, as to those objects, in the mind of 

 a child. JAMES grew tired, for, as ROUSSEAU, in 

 his admirable exposure of the folly of teaching 

 by question and answer, observes, nobody likes 

 to be questioned i&ndi especially children. "Well," 

 said JAMES, " now you tell me something: what 

 " is it that makes the grass green." His Lord 

 ship told him it was the sun* " Why," said 

 JAMES, pulling up some grass, " you see it is 

 " white down here" " Aye," replied my Lord, 

 " but that is because the sun cannot get at it" 

 " flow get at it ?" said James : " The sun makes 

 " it hot all the way down." LORD COCHRANE 

 came in to me, very much delighted : " Here," 

 said he, " little JEMMY has started a fine sub- 

 " ject of dispute for all the philosophers." Jf this 

 page should have the honour to meet the eye 

 of LORD COCHRANE, it will remind him of one 

 of the many happy hours that we have passed 

 together, and I beg him to regard any mention 

 of the incident as a mark of that love and re 

 spect which I bear towards him, and of the 



