A VALK BY MOONLIGHT.

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“Took, mamma! The “moon=is*in’ a
hurry to-night. What makes it go so
much faster ?” :

“Tt seems to go faster, my dear, but it
does not. It is the clouds that go faster.”

“Mamma, don't the clouds sometimes
hit the moon? Freddy says he thinks
that is why the moon often looks so thin.” »

“Oh, no! The moon is away beyond
the clouds: and, besides that, the clouds
are light vapor, like steam, and would do
the moen no harm if they did hit it.”

. Are the clouds light, mamma? Then
I wonder what holds the thunder up. I
know that is heavy, because it jars the
sky when it rolls along.”

“ No, dear. Thunder and lightning are
made by-electricity, which is very light.”

“@b! 1 thowoht lightning was the

Cracks im tic sky. |