THE CURIOSITY OF A LITTLE BOY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 37

THE CURIOSITY OF A LITTLE BOY

for h^l thin f?. and little People are often responsible lived^n^winiS w £ s - the l s °n. of an optician* who niTt+w *11 d> H€ an ' d his sisters- loved to play ab?hi«e ? father s - work bench, and often they amused themselves by looking at the sea through the little smoothconcave glasses which their father used in ,Kis work with Twn° n nF da J cl 5c 15 the boy,, while playing with, two of these glasses, chanced to -hold them 'beedral clnrlf 68 m f U?h a Wav that the ia ™ ° f *to« 3£ eaiai clock seemed very near f-r Th i S S^l is l d ' him , S^tly, for the clock was" s o lUf M he CoUld scaro&lv see the hands with Ms uaivL-u eyes. , , . For a while he stared at the clock and then' at thft glasses, each of which ,he tried in turn, St tS clock was as far -away as ever, and so it remained, turn them as he would, until by chance again he held both un S s g^ er him ' "\ aS "by maS^ C) the churoh od P ' pp h > I kn P w . I k «ow !' he cried aloud It's ' ibheS? Wv r ?T in gr ?* ioy he ran to M» father and told him of his remarkable discovery ' +w ?». t I"! 3 th ? sla f ses iri his turn a^ found that the boy -had spoken the, truth when" he saiti he could bring the great church efock nearer So this was the way- people leamwi +ho+ «„++; a. concave and a convex^ |lass togethe?- in tst * S! right posit on would make distant objects seeS T near Without thas knowledge we should never h*^ T a ,i ?h» telescope, and without tne telescope we *Lw hS known' little of the sunr moon or^starl aYe

So, if you ever , have a chance, to look through a telescope and see the wonders it has bo reveal just remember- the little boy who once lived -in far-off Holland.