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At first he overdid the thing; Corrus was not quite drowsy enough, and the attempt only made him wakeful. Shortly, however, he became exceedingly sleepy, and the geologist's chance came. At the end of a few minutes the herdsman sat up, blinking. He looked around at the dark forms of the cattle, then up at the stars; he was plainly both puzzled and excited.
Then with his geologist's hammer he broke off bits of the metal, through all of which sparkled the bright yellow particles. The German got out his field kit, from which he selected several bottles with glass stoppers, arranging these on the table in front of him. This done, he pulverized a small quantity of the rock, with short, quick raps of the hammer, placing the powder thus made on a plate.
"No matter," Tom answered cheerily. "I've been doing bench work so long in here that I need exercise. I can run over all the stuff." After Reade had pulled on his overcoat and buttoned it he fastened a belt around his waist. Through this he thrust a geologist's hammer. "Don't go to sleep, Harry, old fellow, until you've cooled and weighed the button. Then you may just as well take a nap as not."
And the geologist's heart sank for an instant. He turned resolutely to the bookcase, and shortly found something which he showed to the doctor. It was a book printed all in "Venusian." They carefully translated the title-page, using one of the interlinear English books as a guide; and saw that it was a complete text-book on astral development.
Every rock, every clump of trees, every strip of sea-shore, every sloping hillside, sits for its portrait, and is reproduced with a tender conscientiousness of touch wholly disproportioned to the importance of the subject. When human hearts and human passions are animating or darkening the scene, we do not want to be detained by a botanist's description of plants or a geologist's sketch of rocks.
Infant Salvation In its Relation to Infant Depravity, Infant Regeneration, and Infant Baptism. By J.H. Bomberger. Philadelphia. Lindsay & Blakiston. 16mo. pp. 192. 50 cts. Popular Geology. A Series of Lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh; with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio. By Hugh Miller.
It is significant that Billie, because of her connection with the bee, Supreme, was spared the sight that the doctor saw from Rolla's point of view. Otherwise, the geologist's wife might have had a different opinion of the matter. As it was "Corrus and Dulnop," said she as cooly as Supreme herself might have spoken, "are not the first to suffer because they have discovered something big."
The real fact was that sportsmanship was already becoming distasteful to young Darwin, and his hunting expeditions were now largely carried on with a botanist's drum and a geologist's hammer. But to the practical Doctor these things were no better than the gun it was idling, anyway.
Parker began breaking off bits of rock with a small geologist's hammer which he carried. The men with the guns looked at him. "So you think you'll find gold up here?" asked the one who had first spoken. "Is there any?" inquired Tom, trying to make his voice sound eager. "Nary a bit, strangers," was the answer, and the two men laughed heartily.
At first he overdid the thing; Corrus was not quite drowsy enough, and the attempt only made him wakeful. Shortly, however, he became exceedingly sleepy, and the geologist's chance came. At the end of a few minutes the herdsman sat up, blinking. He looked around at the dark forms of the cattle, then up at the stars; he was plainly both puzzled and excited.
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