S——. "No; but I have, and B——, and C——."
Father. "Yes; you are children. Whilst people are growing, they are children; after they have done growing they are called men and women."
(April, '92.) At tea-time, to-day, somebody said that hot chocolate scalds worse than hot tea or hot water. Mr. —— asked his children if they could give any reason for this. They were silent.
Mr. ——. "If water be made as hot as it can be made, and if chocolate be made as hot as it can be made, the chocolate will scald you the most. Can you tell me why!"
C—— (a girl between eight and nine years old.) "Because there is oil, I believe, in the chocolate; and because it is thicker, and the parts closer together, than in tea or water."
Father. "What you say is true; but you have not explained the reason yet. Well, H——."
H—— (a boy between nine and ten.) "Because there is water in the bubbles."
Father. "Water in the bubbles? I don't understand. Water in what bubbles?"
H——. "I thought I had always seen, when water boils, that there are a great many little bubbles upon the top."
Father. "Well; but what has that to do with the question I asked you?"