1 8 the new method 



The Weather. 



" This is a warm sunny day. This morning there 

 were large nimbus clouds all along the southwestern 

 horizon, and I felt sure it would rain ; but after a few 

 hours the whole sky was quite clear, and the color of 

 the sky was a very pretty shade of blue. 



"Yesterday morning I could see no clouds but 

 some long stratus clouds in the west, and a few 

 cumulus clouds up very high. As both of these are 

 fair weather clouds, I was sure it would be fair all 

 day ; but a little before the middle of the afternoon 

 it rained hard, and there was a strong wind. 



"One of our problems today was to find the 

 weight of calcium, carbon, and oxygen in a pound of 

 calcite." John. 



The Weather. 



" It is not a very fine day, and the sky looks as if 

 we should have rain. This morning it was snowing 

 when I came to school. The flakes were small and 

 were driven about and broken by the wind. The 

 nimbus clouds were heavy and dark, but I could not 

 see them very well because the sky was dark, too. 



" I saw a few snow crystals that were not broken. 

 They had six sides and six points. Every part was 

 made very beautiful by other little crystals all over 

 the larger parts. Water is a mineral. Like all other 



