52 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



" How do you know that the Sun isn't fire all 

 through ? " 



" That is easily learned, even by House People ; 

 they see, through their telescopes, dark spots on 

 the Sun's brightness. What are these spots but 

 where rifts in the blazing atmosphere show the 

 solid core. 



" In the beginning of this Sun Family, to which 

 I belong, bits of this fiery vapour whirled away 

 from the Sun and flew into space. Some bits 

 flew a great way and some not so far. As soon 

 as these whiffs of hot breath left the Sun .they 

 were told the first rule, 'keep moving,' and as 

 the hot vapour of which they were made began 

 to spin, it took a round shape, so at first all the 

 pieces looked like so many separate Suns. 



" The Plan had a use for all of these new 

 globes, and they were set moving and develop- 

 ing, each to go in its own path until it reaches 

 the goal marked out for it. What this goal is 

 no House Person may know, though they are 

 always watching and spying up into the sky to 

 find out. No one knows the Plan but the First 

 Heart not even Heart of Nature. 



" While these new Suns were young they were 

 very hot and gave light like their parent ; but as 

 they gradually cooled they shrank and grew more 



