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THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE. 
LECTURE II. 
SUNBEAMS AND THE WORK THEY DO. 
HO does not love the 
sunbeams, and feel brighter 
and merrier as he watches them 
playing on the wall, sparkling like diamonds on 
the ripples of the sea, or making bows of coloured 
light on the waterfall ? Is not the sunbeam so dear to 
us that it has become a household word for all that is 
merry and gay ? and when we want to describe the 
