. St. Nicholas [serial]. the heroof a terrible encounter, but I gained my firstknowledge of the fact that certain decayingvegetable materials can glow with a weird light—known to every dweller in the country asfox-fire. A few months later I had the lesson to learnall over again and from a different point ofview. Late in a dark evening I went to the shed for an armful of wood. The wood-chop-per had that day cut up a load that had, as heexpressed it, gone a little by —that is, it hadlain for more than two years in a pile in thewood lot, till the sticks near the ground hadbecome somewhat decayed
. St. Nicholas [serial]. the heroof a terrible encounter, but I gained my firstknowledge of the fact that certain decayingvegetable materials can glow with a weird light—known to every dweller in the country asfox-fire. A few months later I had the lesson to learnall over again and from a different point ofview. Late in a dark evening I went to the shed for an armful of wood. The wood-chop-per had that day cut up a load that had, as heexpressed it, gone a little by —that is, it hadlain for more than two years in a pile in thewood lot, till the sticks near the ground hadbecome somewhat decayed so that they wereregarded as not good enough to sell, but couldbe made to do for home use if well of these damp sticks had been split orbroken in pieces and scattered about in theshed, on the pile, and in the yard so as to drythoroughly. As I entered the shed I took just one lookand started for the house with a. cry of Fire!The woodshed s on fire! that brought outthe whole family with the water-pails. And. When you find, in the daytime, a decaying piece of damp woodor log on the ground among the growing plants, you may suspectthat it is the heme of fox-fire. Go in the evening and ascertainwhether your suspicions were correct. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 745
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