AN EXPERIMENT. 163

In the evening, while Mrs. Holiday, and
Rollo, and Lucy, were seated at a work-table
in a parlor, waiting for Mr. Holiday and
Jonas to finish their writing, Rollo took up
a pin which was lying upon the work-table,
and said to Lucy,

‘““O,.Lucy, I mean to see if this pin will
turn straw-color, and blue, when I heat it ; ”
——and so saying he held the point of it in
the lamp.

“ That won’t turn straw-color, and blue,”
said Lucy.

“Why ?— it is bright,’’ said Rollo, hold-
ing it still in the flame;—but he had just
got the words spoken when he dropped the
pin, with a sudden exclamation, and began
rubbing and blowing his fingers.

His mother laughed aloud; Rollo smiled,
and looked rather foolish.

‘Did it burn you, Rollo?” said she.

‘““Not much,” said he, carefully touching
the pin upon the table to see if it had got
cool. It was cool; and Rollo, after examin-
ing it again, said there was not a bit of a
straw-color upon it any where.

“You can’t temper a pin,” said Lucy; “a
pin is brass; Jonas said steel.”