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STAR-GAZING.
Out beneath the starry heavings Mr. Slow took his
son, Abimelech, to point out to him — to read to him
from the broad page of nature — the wonders of
“The spacious furnishment on high,”
“All these 'ere stars, my son,” said Mr. S., pointing
up to the studded sky above them, “that you see up
there, stationary and unmovable, marchin' along in sublime
grande'r, and winking at the earth with their jolly
yeller eyes, like gold eagles, them are called fixed
stars;' and” —
“But what 's that, father?” said young Abimelech,
as a meteor, like a racer, darted across the southerly
sky.
Mr. Slow was prompt with his answer.
“That,” said he, “I guess, is one of 'em that 's got
unfixed.”
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