CONSEQUENCES.

“ Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth.”
James iii. §,

“HERE goes!” shouted the stone as he left the
hand of the school-boy and cleft the air. And
“There an end!” he added, as he splashed through
the water to the bottom of the pond.

But though he stuck fast in the mud himself
when he got there, that was by no means the end
of the affair:

At the spot where he dropped in, some of the
water was displaced by the shock, and driven back
in a circular undulation or wave; and this formed
a beautiful ring-like pattern on the smooth surface
of the pond.

And the first wave pressed the water behind it
into a second, and there camea second circle, a

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