Frau wie und Frau Warum; oder, Erste Lektionen in der Erde für Kinder . Sie, und mehr vom Wind angewirkt, fielen in immenser Zahl auf den Leeward Hang von Thekon (natürlich, es größer und größer zu machen, wie Ihave Ihnen bereits erklärt hat), Und natürlich, da sie intensiv heiß und hell waren, wodurch der Kegel Lookas machte, wenn auch er rot-heiß war. Aber es war nicht so, sagt er, wirklich. Die Farbe der Steine war eher Golden, und sie sahen den schwarzen Kegel mit ihren Goldenduschen, die kleineren, die Steu stoppen, die größeren Onesrolling nach unten und wie Hasen entlang springen. A 64 MADAM HOW AND LADY W

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Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . her, and more acted on by the wind, fell in immense numbers on the leeward slope of thecone (of course, making it bigger and bigger, as Ihave explained already to you), and of course, as theywere intensely hot and bright, making the cone lookas if it too was red-hot. But it was not so, he says, really. The colour of the stones was rather golden, and they spotted the black cone over with their goldenshowers, the smaller ones stopping stiU, the bigger onesrolling down, and jumping along just like hares. A 64 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY CHAP. wonderful pedestal, he says, for the explosion whichsurmounted it. How high the stones flew up hecould not tell. There was generally one which wentmuch higher than the rest, and pierced upwards towardsthe moon, who looked calmly down, mocking such vainattempts to reach her. The large stones, of course, did not rise so high; and some, he says, only justappeared over the rim of the cone, above which theycame floating leisurely up, to show their brilliant forms. and intense white light for an instant, and thensubside again. Try and picture that to yourselves, rememberingthat this was only a little side eruption, of no moreimportance to the whole mountain than the fall of aslate off the roof is of importance to the whole house.And then think how mean and weak mans fireworks, and even mans heaviest artillery, are compared withthe terrible beauty and terrible strength of MadamHows artillery underneath our feet. Now look at this figure. It represents a section of Ill VOLCANOS 65 a volcano; that is, one cut in half to show you theinside. A is the cone of cinders. B, the black line upthrough the middle, is the funnel, or crack, throughwhich steam, ashes, lava, and everything else rises, c is the crater mouth. D D D, which looks broken, are the old rocks which the steam heaved up and burstbefore it could get out. And what are the black linesacross, marked e e E ? They are the stream

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