AN EXPERIMENT. 165

“Now, how shall I keep it from burning
my fingers?” said he.

“Here, stick it into this pencil for a han-
dle ;—no, I will make a handle of a piece
of paper,”’ said his mother.

So she took a small strip of paper, and
folded it over closely, like a lamp-lighter.
Then she stuck the needle into the end, in
such a manner that it projected beyond the
paper ; and then handed the whole apparatus
to Rollo.

Rollo held the end of the needle in the
flame of the lamp. In a few moments the
point was red hot, and when he took it out
of the lamp, it cooled again suddenly; but
there was a sort of a dark band between the
part which had been hot, and the bright part
of the needle which was inserted into the
paper.

“TI don’t see any straw-color, or blue,” ,
said he.

“Let me look,” said his mother.

Mrs. Holiday examined the dark band
more closely than Rollo had done.

“Yes,” said she, “I see it. "This dark
place has three colors. It is straw-color