Fanny, the Flower Girl, Or Honesty Rewarded : to Which Are Added Other Tales
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— (Smiling rather contemptuously.; Poor .sister 1 What ignorance 1" Father - -" William, speak kindly — tell yoiu 06 THE SILVER E:NIFE. eister what this instrument is, and wnat jci want to do with it." William. — (Scientifically.) — " In war, when a besieged garrison wishes to know all the movements of the enemy, without being seen, they erect behind the walls, or the ramparts, a mirror, placed at the end of a long pole, and inclining towards the country. You under- stand, then, that everything... that takes place outside, is reflected in the mirror, and can be seen from within, or in another mirror placed at the bottom of the pole, and sloping inwards. This, Lucy, is what is called a polemoscope- - that is to say, an instrument far observations In war." "Thank you," William, said Lucy, "but what are you going to do with it ?" William. — " The thing is quite plain. I am going to fasten a small mirror on a light pitchfork, inclining it downwa' ds. This pitch- fork I shall fasten fii'mly to pole; then some one will climb, dear papa, vithout any danger, as fjar as the strong branches reach ; from thence he can draw up the pole and its mirror THE SILVER KNITB.
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