“It looks very dark.”
“There is good reason for that.”
“I am somewhat curious. Tell me why.”
“You perceive it is very dark.”
“I own it.”
“That, sir, is some of the darkness which Moses spread over the land of Egypt.”
“Indeed! I presume, what the moderns call darkness made visible.”
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
“Mother,” asked a little girl, while listening to the reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “why don’t the book never mention Topsy’s last name? I have tried to hear it whenever it speaks of her, but it has not once said it.”
“Why, she had no other name, my child.”