Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07
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HAMMERING 1T IN.

step of n man rushing h%urriedly upstairs; the door
of my sitting-room was burst Cren, and my friend
Boulder, foui ishing in his hand n heavy hammer,
stood before me and gasped cut, I've done IT nj
last. Smith |! Ive done il at last !" Boulder is n
most excitsble man, with II wife and a large family
of boys. / looked aghast for marks Of blood upon
the hammer-fur n trace Of human hair in sume
crack of the handle.
"which-who-how many - shouted.
my son Jack, he declared, ''is the cause Of il
all. lie brought il upon me. o Smith. my dear
friend, wouli you havo believed | should have
ever come to this 7? Cut me spme ham"
lie sat down opposite inc in an easy chair, turn
ed up his soles To the lire helped himself to q thick
tlice of bread and said again,
Cut me some ham. / must lie off to the hills
in ten minutes. and it is well to furtify myself be-
cause. l may miss dinner to day.
'Sir MIR. Boulder J"
"Let me ring for n cup and saucer. There nov,
go on with your breakfast, and I'll tell you alt
about it. I was lei to it entirely by that hard-heai-
ell fellow. David Page"
David Page. F. G. S. r1ark you! Three
weeks ago. Mrs. Boulder came TO me, and said,
Peter l replied Susanna She said. Look nj
Jacks clean shirt She showed me a shirt folded
with it's front covered with red stains, and holes
and indentations. Mercy | cii"d, what's the
cause of all this? Jack was at schuol-round the
corner, You know-Tickleby's day ch, ol. wish
to chow you, M. b - said my old girl, jacks lin
en- drawer Followed my wif,, looked in the
thWCi lIhiih ~ biiNA WIN HN''tO '"' 49,
the drawer below that, found clay. sand and old
shells in his Sunday jacket. Caused the dirt to be
instantly carried to the dust-hule. Further exam
ibed the drawers in Jacks room. and in the corner
of one. found u book entitled Advanced Text Book
of Geology, Descriptive and Industrial, by David
Page, F. q. s.
That's what has done it, Peter Mrs. 3. said
That's the book H,e seen him reading, evening
afto- evening" lie shall read no more of it, said
/. THE book is confscated.' When Jack came.
home at dinnertme We had a great disturbance
Here Mr.. Boulder gnSped over his ham, and ]
felt painfully nervous. Boulder went On:
jack said !. you shall never more look on
that book l put il on INV own library table. !
neeped into it ; | lcr ked into it | read bits of it;
| read more of il: | liked it; | studied it: | threw
myself heart and soul into it; | comprehendet IT.;
Il bought II hammer."
Here Boulder caught his hammer up and -four
isbed it again. He was evidently stune-inaG.
with this hammer. my boy, break my way
into the treasury of Nature"
Here Boulder brought his hammer down, and
smashed my tea cup.
"Ah, good :" he cried, taking n fragment up
"A lucky accident. Lrok at the crystalline irac.
ture. What's here? Clay. What makes the clay
crystalline in it's fracture? Fire. Theory Of
the isneous rocks. Thickness Of the ponderable
crust Of the globe. eight hundred miles. Depth at
which most uf the rocks urdir arily found Mt the
surface would exist in a molten state, say fve-and-
twenty miles. Undercrust Of the globe, granite.
Here's q Bit"
My excitable friend took from the martel piece
ahandsome paper weight of polished stone.
"'Some ASS of a man has polished this fine spec.
linen Of primitive rock" With one tap of his
hammer. Boulder broke it in two. Observe" lie
said, The exquisite fracture"
"Exquisite-cunfuund|"
"Never polish Il fine specimen. The ~scologist,
nv dear boy, is most particular to show you II
clean fracture AMI nolling else. lie breaks a
stone, and takes pains not SO much as tn dim with
a fingers touch the brilliance Of the broken sur.
face. Now fractures are of various sorts, con.
choidal or shell like. even, uneven, smooth, splirt.
cry, hackly. Only look in this beautiful bit OF
granite, at the silvery CLEANS of the mica aud
the suety bits of quartz speaking the solid pud-
ding of the felspar. Quartz is,of simple minerals
ore of the hardes; | knock out n little chip o
granite. aid you will observe that it is impossible
to powder the quartz in it by blows of a hammer
on the hearth stone. You perceive the hearth
stone breaks, but the quartz grains remain un'
comminuted."
MIR. B"uldar-'I began. family. l was made
somewhat weak and helpless 10y my cold or / should
have met vighur with vigour.
Pardon me, Smith; they remain, / say. IN
comminuted. Let me advise you to be II genlOgist.
am going to the hills to-day on an excursion.
All. you have u cold. Well, | will stop exactly
half an hour" Here he pulled out his watch. II
do want you to share my enjoyment. | do want
to make you to feel the delight caused hy the
study Of geology. l didn't think that | should
take it up myself when / turned out Jacks
drawers. rage ONer-Versuaueu me-. lie 4 lUst
the man to bring the science home to you. All.
Mrs. Boulder doesn't know il, but I've carr ed NJ
her spare sheets and blankets into one of the
nttics, and have n most beautiful experiment on
the formation Of mud-baukS from aqueous deposit
in her linen chest. I've mixed M in water eartl
and shells and a shillings worth of shrimps. In
few days. when | drain the water Gf, YOU CONT
over to me. and III show you how the top crust u
the world il formed, and how The remains If ex
:inct animals get to he mixed with 1t. Only. i
NJ. III ,bt.uIt ho M II n4A Al. IN IA ahnsf aEN
the experiment is finished % those women those
women
but now. Smith, rs you've q cold, and can't &c
10 the hills, III show y0u how a geologist need GO
no farther than his own room for a study of in
compnrably the most glorious Of sciences. III
give you to-day only an elementary lesson. When
] come next we'll go into the the thing more com
pletely. Now lUok here down came the ham
mer ON a corner of my antelriece,- break of
this little hit of metamorphic 'ock the characte'
has been destroyed by polishing, but now what
beauty have | not revealed"
Boulder" | cried, give me your hammer. Lee
me send your hammerd down into the hail."
THANK you. thank you'll shall 5e going
presently. IT'S not worth while. Dismiss from
your mind what | was just a)ing about aqueous
cocks. Above the igneous you have the metamur
phic-you have, to speak familiarity. the mantel
piece upon the paper weight. and not the paper
weight upon the mantel- piece"
II have, have II"
40 be sure you have. Heat and the pressure
Of the superintendent strata have given TO these
metamurphic rocks their crystalline appearance,
though it is believed that they were once deposited
by water, and contained fossils of which all trace
has been extinguished. Well then. Smith. on the
top Of the metamorphic rocks, on the top Of the
mantel piece, We place Sir. Roderiek Murchi.
son"
"Can il he 2ossible?"
"Yes. Murchison and the Silurian rocks defined
and discovered by hin. They used TO lie called,
along With some others, the Greywacke forma
ton"
~. indeedr"
Eyes. Here we have certain slnds,ones, ,ha1es
1imestones, hngstoIes. and the states near Bala
BY Jove! Smith. you've n slate top TO that coasol
table. If I. should he Silurian, you happy dog =
Il il should be Silurian"
In leaped INV friend and M leaned I. hut nc