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west. You will observe that the north pole of the magnet dips a 

 little. It is nearer the table than the opposite extremity. 



We will now try some experiments with the magnet and the 

 needle together. Hold the north pole of the magnet towards the 

 north pole of the needle, and see ! how it flies away ! Turn the 

 magnet over, so that the south pole be presented, and it comes back 

 rapidly. You may thus keep the needle whirling very innocently, 

 ' not touching it." To make this experiment more curious, hold 

 ;\ thick book between the magnet and needle. It will operate 

 about as well right through my dictionary. Get a cup full of water 

 and a small sewing needle. Touch the needle to the magnet, and 

 then place it very carefully on the surface of the water. It won't 

 break in, if you are careful, but will make a good compass, and 

 square round north and south, as correctly as the Boston one. Take 

 the needle off the stand, and put the north pole near to the north 

 pole of the needle in the cup, and see how it will skate around to 

 get away ! 



Your magnet will take up your pocket knives and impart its 

 power to them. Try it on some new steel pen points. The points 

 that touch the north pole of the magnet will be made south pole on 

 that end. Touch them to the needle, and you will see. One end 

 of the pen will be a north pole, the opposite a south pole. No 

 two north poles ever come together ; they are never agreed, but get 

 away from each other as far as possible. 



I have told you but little yet about magnetism. Perhaps enough 

 to n.7;akcn your attention. Live to grow wiser. 



The First Snow-Storm. 



WHAT a great change does a fall of snow produce on the face of the 

 landscape ! Overnight, we see the fields green, the trees brown and 

 naked, and the winding highway as clean and hard as if it had been 

 swept; the fallow-lands, too, were brown, and there was something 

 of a spring-look in the turnip-fields where the sheep were feeding ; 

 when, lo, next morning the whole scene has undergone a change ! 

 Some mighty hand has been at work during the night,- and every 

 object is now covered white over with snow, which has fallen flake 



