CHAPTER XI 



COMMONPLACE NATURE 



In stating facts never search for the most start- 

 ling. Nature in her simplicity is amply wonderful 

 and instructive. I know a girl that came home 

 from school, and said that the teacher had been 

 giving talks on astronomy. Upon being ques- 

 tioned she told how long it would take a man to 

 walk to the sun ; how long for an express train 

 to get there ; the size of a cylinder of ice that could 

 be driven into it at a certain rate and be converted 

 into steam as fast as it touched the hot surface. 



Upon being questioned further she replied, 



" That is all I can tell. I remember only the 



things I didn't believe ! *' 

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