St Nicholas [serial] . inning of a revolution which didnot end until every room in the house had put onan attractive and home-like appearance. In thefollowing winter, when Jacob became associatedwith a club of young fellows for purposes of mutualimprovement, Uncle Higglestones parlor was oneof the pleasantest places where they met. Of course, Jacob saw a great deal of his friends the Fairlakes ; and while he was making many newacquaintances, he now and then met an old one. He was walking on the levee one afternoon whenhe saw coming toward him a puckered mouth, along, lean, twisted neck, and a
St Nicholas [serial] . inning of a revolution which didnot end until every room in the house had put onan attractive and home-like appearance. In thefollowing winter, when Jacob became associatedwith a club of young fellows for purposes of mutualimprovement, Uncle Higglestones parlor was oneof the pleasantest places where they met. Of course, Jacob saw a great deal of his friends the Fairlakes ; and while he was making many newacquaintances, he now and then met an old one. He was walking on the levee one afternoon whenhe saw coming toward him a puckered mouth, along, lean, twisted neck, and a pair of outstretchedhands. The hands grasped his, and the mouthunpuckered enough to say : Well! I declare! Glad to see you! Didntknow as ever I should after that morning I saw youstarting for Jackson, and I was drifting down thecreek so fast I was nt able to say just what I wantedto about the power of the sun; but I ve thoughton it fifty times since, and Ill tell ye now. Ye see,the bigger the mass of an attracting body. MAY LOVE AND PEACE BE WITH THEE, Oh, Mr. Longshore ! said Jacob, who couldnot help laughing at this abrupt return to the oldhobby, tell me about yourself now. And aboutFriend Matthews family. Have you seen any ofthem lately? About myself I haint much to tell, repliedSam; cept that I ve had a successful season,—sold more goods, I m bound to say, than anyother six men on the river; and t other day I gothold of a treat-ise on spectrum analysis. Youknow, this spectrum analysis is the great discoveryof the age;—you can tell by the lines on the spec-trum just what any luminous body is made of; andit shows us that the sun is made up of about thesame ingredients as our earth, for instance, iron i877-l MIS OWN MAS T E R . 815 and other metals, hydrogen and other gases, onlyin an intensely heated state of liquid or • I shall be very glad to know all about it sometime, Jacob again interrupted his friend. But Iasked you Oh, yes ! about the Quakers; have I se
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