. St. Nicholas [serial] . m-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 flakes. Nor wasthis all. The professor broughtforth tray a
. St. Nicholas [serial] . m-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 flakes. Nor wasthis all. The professor broughtforth tray after tray of thesebeautiful objects. Some lookedlike embroidery of gold on therich brown of an autumn leaf;some like tracings of were little cups of scarletfoaming over, one would no; this foamy crest wasbut the finest fluff of tiniest I TIP OF ONEOF THE SPIRALTHREADS THATMAKE THE FLOSSAMONG THE SPORES. (VERYHIGHLY MAGNI-FIED IN A COM-POUND MICRO-SCOPE.) 1902.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 843. THREE SPORE BALLS. TWO OPENED,ONE CLOSED. (SIX TIMES NATURALSIZE.) fibers, like fairy wool. Some were elfin cylin-ders of bronze, it seemed, mounted on pedes-tals of snowy marble, so small, so delicate, thatthe horns of elf-land faintly blowing wouldcertainly blow them all away. And yet, undera lens the bronze gleamed and shone with thecolors of the rainbow, especially blue and greenand gold. These,too, were tiny fruitsfull of fine dust-likespores, and came upfrom slime. Someother forms were ofthe softest gray, liketiny ostrich-plumes,only a great dealfiner, an inch highsome of them, bigenough for Marjorie. to touch them with herfingers and feel just how soft they were—tuftsof these as big as Marjories hand; and soon, and on, and on, forms of every color andshape, but all of exquisite grace and loveli-ness, until everybody grew enthusiastic, andUncle George and Philip and Marjorie were ready to believethat slime-moldswere almost theonly forms of life atall
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