32 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 'J'J 



(The older girl speaks) 



You cannot see mountains and vallej-s in the clouds, 



I see the clouds as big trees, 



When I look far away the clouds are like cliffs of high, gray rocks. 



I see a cloud that looks like a cocoanut tree. 



The clouds come up and come up in different shapes. 



There are clouds that look like breakers. 



You do not see the colors and shapes of the clouds, 



I see them like people moving and bending, thej' come up like people. 



There are clouds like many people walking. 



I see them every time I look out to sea with the glass. 



Sometimes a cloud comes up like a ghost, and sometimes like a ship. 



I look through the glass far away and see everything. 



I see a cloud that looks like a sea horse, a wild sea horse that lives in the water ; 



I see a cloud like a deer with branching horns. 



(The boy speaks) 

 You do not see that. 



(The older girl speaks) 



From the time I was a child I did not think I would see such things as these. 

 If I do not look through the glass I cannot see them. 

 Now I find out the different things that the clouds make, 

 Do you want to see them too ? 



(The boy speaks) 

 All right. I want to see them too. (He looks through the glass.) 



(The boy speaks) 

 Now I see funny things. 



(The girl speaks) 

 You see all those funny things. 



(The boy addresses the younger girl) 

 Do you want to see too ? 



(The younger girl speaks) 

 No. I am too young. 



(The boy addresses the older girl) 

 Look down into the water with the glass. 



(The older girl speaks) 



Now I see strange things under the water. 



I see things moving around as though they were live animals, 



I see things that look like little bugs, and manv strange animals under the sea. 



