THE FUNGUS, OR COLORLESS PLANT. 21 



And, if there isn't room inside, they go outside, just as 

 they did in the old buckwheat-jar. After all, Charley 

 was not so wrong, for these torulse are the little spirits 

 of the yeast. 



Of this you may be sure, every torula has a mother. 

 Topsy, you know, said " she never was born, never had 

 a mother," that she just " growed up ; " but Topsy was 

 mistaken, so are the people mistaken who say that to- 



Fig. 14. 



Cells linked together in Chains. 



rul^e just grow up. Poor Topsy did not know the sci- 

 entific name for being born without a parent — the wise 

 men call it spontaneous generation. Some people 

 have been trying to prove for two hundred years or 

 more that these little specks of life can make themselves. 

 I will tell you how you can prove that this is not true. 

 Heat kills these little fellows ; you know the cook has 

 to be careful not to mix her bread with water that is too 



