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There were no barilla ashes ; but she recollected that a heap of fern and bean stalks had been lately burned near the house, and the ashes of these were to be easily had., , , , ,Some of these ashes were brought upon a plate ; and Harry's father placed the ashes ana the sand before him, and saidThese when burned together, would make glass " tt 1 shall never forget it," said Harry Now 1 have seen the real things, of which glass is made, I shall never forget them."

That is what I say, too," cried Lucy Seeing things, and seeing them just at the very time I am curious about them, makes me remember easily, , , ,,and exceeding well."Taste these ashes," said their father this pot asb, as it is called 5 wet rout finger, take up a little of it, and put it into your mouth."

Harry and Lucy did so ; but they said the ashes had not an agreeable taste. Their father said, that he did not expect that they should think it agreeable ; but that he had desired them to taste the ashes, that tbey might know the taste of what is called alkaliwhat is called an alkaline taste 1 shall not forget that, either," said Lucy.

How wonderful it is," continued shelooking first at the sand and ashes, and then at a glass, which she held in her hand how wonderful it is, that such a beautiful, clean, clear, transparent thing, as glass, could be made from such different looking tlRngs, , , , , , as sand and ashes !"And I wonder," said Harry, how people could ever think or invent, that glass could be made of these things."Some say that glass was invented, or rather discovered, by a curious accident," said his father.Pray, papa, tell us the accident," Some sailors, or some merchants who were going on a voyage,were driven by contrary winds, out of their course (or way.)