| Show A crystal sarcophagus Tha great gum gain hees ot of it a 11 forest primeval wore were weeping bright tears to in the ardent sunshine which in those days shone with tropical heat away up to the shores 0 of I 1 the tha baltic nuil t the he co coasts a a t a of now boy lov greenland swarms ol of happy flies alica dat fluttered terea in and out among the abo cooling loaves roll anil now roll anil thra then a poor victim stuck last in the enticing n teeing bone boney dew which dripped from tho laraba A heedless beetle I 1 ironing droning along through the hot air would sometimes share its I 1 is fato a t a vain wore nero their struggles to escape limbs limbe roll and wings might bo be dismembered but tho the liquid held them last fast is as a spiders web drop by drop tho the juices are distilled around them until they were embalmer embalmed ed moro more royally than L gystan gyp tan king every tiny coining of wing every tint of 0 their shining coat of mail mai 1 was 11 eliad fixed the tha touch of dust duet or decay and all was KB as clear as aa sunlight gun Bui light llight through tho the walls walla of these theao crystal sarcophagi ages on ages rolled away and aej this thin old earth of ours oars BAW many ups a pa and towns downs before it wua was really ready for fer us to livo live in it had bad cooled down wonderfully and tho the tropical tropic nl belt hal haj crept closer to the equator leaving vast territories of shivering hi vering animals sold and plants planta to winter it out as boat they could those great forests dadej away though no wood mans cio axe ever sounded through them wounded no chronicler wrote role of their rise anti and downfall they were their own histo linns a maybe the great gum troea wept themselves to death any way their tears teara were changed to stono itono flies files and all and when more mole ages a hall bad gone gona by men found the lamps of imprisoned oil no line and named them amber it was easily worked into ornaments oin amenti and took tok a beautiful po polish listi and so BO rapidly grew into favor among the rude people who first discovered it history does nt not state when the first string biting of limber amber leads beads loll lad traveled so eo far a as italy but by some means tho the precious substance auba tanco was seen been roll and hoard beard of if and there was a loud end call tor for it which penetrated even into those unknown northern nort boin german lands trade is trade the world over and supply and demand keep tolerable pace with each other one would hardly think they could in these far off times when traveling was creeping compared with our present way or ol getting on bat tho the umber limber was wai carried by bomil bomo meaos means from to country from the aaltio to the mediterranean and tho the black hou has and in time tiao over all the world baron baroa humboldt states that this thin trado trade in umber ember was the moans means of mak miling in known largo tracts of country still of of different nations and people to one at another 1 it seemed like a great work to spring from such enoh a seemingly small what amber aber was mado made of was long ft n a et anding puzzle but at last those wise I 1 taen on the scientists tista 40 to whom it you give giva a bona they can make the bird road read out ont tho the enigma the flies themselves hold held the key to it it was as plain as Colum buss egg after they their saw through it how hov many of the great grant ones of the earth would have worked a lifetime for tho that famo fame of these theme little flies but bat the world has ban forgotten the names of moat 0 of f them and gives but bat A pasting passing thought now and then to the rest but bat the little flies in ia amber have bava an interest that never wears out I 1 think our whittier Whit tiet should have bave numbered them with the ripple and the raindrop rain kin drop and the bird tracks on oa tho the sandstone of which he said bid per hapa it was because they were not thinking of themselves that they had enok luck tho the chances of immortality depend very much on that alra J E mcconaughey |
