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Show UTIUIEN I How the Flood Came. Tho aboriginal blacks ot Australia havo a queer tradition about tho flood, surd, for how can tho picture of a Thoy sny that at one timo there was no water on the earth at all, except In tho body of nn lmmcnso frog, where men and women could not get 1L Thoro wns a great council on tho subject, sub-ject, nnd It wns found out that If the 1 frog could bo mndo to laugh tho wnt-' ers would run nut of his mouth nnd tho drought be ended. So several niilmnls were mado to dancu nnd caper before tho frog to lnduco him to laugh, but he did not oven smile, nnd so the waters re-inalncd re-inalncd In his body. Then some ono hnppcncd to think of tho queer contortions contor-tions Into which tho ell could twist Itself, It-self, nnd It wns ntrnlghlwny brought before tho fiog. And when tho frog saw tho wriggling ho laughed so loud that tho whole eurth trembled, nnd tho yourself opposite to the light, wheth- H er from a window or a gas Jet, so M that the card will not throw a shadow, , and then pi ess your nose against the H edgo of the card and look at the two H pictures, M Thus you will Bee the bird with jM your right eye and tho cage with M your loft, and for an Instant they will il both seem stationary. Then all at H once thu bird will appear to move H toward the cage aud finally to entor B It, Just as If It had life nnd had gone H iu through a door. B If your puzzled friends desire an HBl explanation of tho phenomenon refer HBJ them to tho chapter on Optics In BhJ their Natural Philosophy. HJ |