"Now I have brought you out another picture: it is the point of a very small needle, seen through the very same microscope which showed me the snow-flakes. Just look at it, boys. This is man's work."
The Point of a very small Needle, seen through the Microscope.
CONVERSATION IX.
Uncle Phillip tells the Boys a Story about a Philosopher and his Kite.—He tells them, too, about Ants that have Awls, and build Cities, and Stairs, and Bridges, and many other things.
"So, boys, you have come again to see me. I am very glad of it; for as this is a leisure day, we shall have time enough to talk: but what is that you have there? Oh, I see now; it is a kite."
"Yes, Uncle Philip; it is a French kite that we have been making, and we have come to ask you to go out with us this morning and see us fly it."