. St. Nicholas [serial]. 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. At night fox-fire readily reveals itself by aglowing from an old stump, or from piecesof wood on the ground. again I was laughed at, and learned my secondlesson in fox-fire. But I well rememberhow we young folks afterward played with that fire, and how we danced and ran and hurledthe glowing lumps through the
. St. Nicholas [serial]. 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. At night fox-fire readily reveals itself by aglowing from an old stump, or from piecesof wood on the ground. again I was laughed at, and learned my secondlesson in fox-fire. But I well rememberhow we young folks afterward played with that fire, and how we danced and ran and hurledthe glowing lumps through the air, pretendingto be Indians at a fire dance, hobgoblins,magicians, imps, and fiends. Last summer I was guiding a party of aboutone hundred and fifty persons of all agesthrough a swamp at midnight, trying to an-swer Thoreaus query, Is not the midnightlike Central Africa to most of us ? Gibsonalso states: For even the best informedstudent of daylight natural history may visithis accustomed haunts in the darkness as apilgrim in a strange land. We found a largequantity of the fox-fire, put out our lanterns,and had a fantastic parade of midnight explor-ers with fox-fire torches. Of course the firewas not bright enougn to be of aid intraveling, but the many sticks and balls ofthe pale
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