. St. Nicholas [serial] . TINY SALVERS,• ONE BEARING A FLOSSYCYLINDER OF FRUIT. ONE HAS A WOOL-LIKE GROWTH OF THE SPORES. FAIRY-LIKE CLUSTERS OF SPORE-SPHEKES ON LONG, CROOKED,TWISTING STALKS. (HIGHLY MAGNIFIED.) MOLD, LIKE CRULLERS, AS SLIGHTLY MAGNIFIEDBY A POCKET-MICROSCOPE. Wonderful! Yes, indeed ; and yet no won-der, for what you have been watching is aform of protoplasm, simple living matter, themost wonderful substance that we know any-thing about. And just to think of it out ofdoors, stream-ing about yourorchard in thatunprotectedway. Littlewonder thatyou all weresurprised andcharmed!
. St. Nicholas [serial] . TINY SALVERS,• ONE BEARING A FLOSSYCYLINDER OF FRUIT. ONE HAS A WOOL-LIKE GROWTH OF THE SPORES. FAIRY-LIKE CLUSTERS OF SPORE-SPHEKES ON LONG, CROOKED,TWISTING STALKS. (HIGHLY MAGNIFIED.) MOLD, LIKE CRULLERS, AS SLIGHTLY MAGNIFIEDBY A POCKET-MICROSCOPE. Wonderful! Yes, indeed ; and yet no won-der, for what you have been watching is aform of protoplasm, simple living matter, themost wonderful substance that we know any-thing about. And just to think of it out ofdoors, stream-ing about yourorchard in thatunprotectedway. Littlewonder thatyou all weresurprised andcharmed! And then theprofessor wenton to tell how common were such things onevery rotting log and stump in all the woods,on piles of refuse, everywhere. He told of thequeer appetite the slime has fororganic food—how fond it is ofsome sorts of mushrooms andthings of that kind. Then, underhis microscope, he showed thefruit, as he called it, the littlestalkedspheres,turned and sculp-tured, and sometimes coveredwith glittering fla
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