HARRY AND LUCY CONCLUDED; BEING THE LAST PART OF EARLY LESSONS. BY MARIA EDGEWORTH. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV. The business of Education, in respect of knowledge, is not, as I think, to SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR R. HUNTER, 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; AND 47, PATERNOSTER ROW. HARRY AND LUCY CONCLUDED. It was in the second week of their visit at Digby Castle, that one morning, as Harry and Lucy were left alone in the workshop, Harry whirring happily at the lathe, he felt Lucy suddenly touch his arm, and saw her looking up in his face, as if eager to say something. Rather reluctantly he slackened the whirring motion, and held back the tool. "Well, what do you want, my dear?" "I want you to come with me, I have made a discovery! Follow me, Harry." Harry laid down his tool and followed. The workshop was a large irregular room, surrounded by shelves and drawers, and racks for tools, with various benches VOL. IV. B for carpenters and carvers, and for braziers and smiths; three lathes were placed obpiquely to the windows: in the middle of the room stood a circular saw machine, a lapidary's wheel, and a treadle blow-pipe; and there were two flagged recesses, partly skreened off, and contrived for a camp forge and a small casting furnace. There was another recess, elevated two or three steps above the floor, which contained some tall models, and behind these Lucy had discovered a door, which, being unlatched, she had pushed a little more open, and now throwing it quite back, she said, "Look, Harry, at what is in that room." He looked in, and his eyes sparkled with joy. "An electrical machine! a great battery!" But with his foot on the threshold he stopped, and laying his hand on her arm said, "Do not go in-I do not know whether we may-I hope you have not been in there?" "Oh no," said Lucy; "I would not without asking you." "And I must not, without asking Sir Rupert. But Lucy, when you first saw this, what did you think it was?" "Oh! I knew directly that it was an electrical machine," said Lucy. "You never saw one before, that I know of," said Harry. "I saw my uncle's, but you did not; it has been packed up ever since you came home from aunt Pierrepoint's." Very true; but I have seen a print of one, with electrical machine written underneath; and I knew it directly from that; but I do not understand any thing about it. As you saw my uncle's real machine, you can explain this to me. We need not go in, Harry; but just as we stand here, you might show me the use of all the parts. First, tell me the use of that glass cylinder, which is something like a broad grindstone of glass, with a sort of a silk curtain hanging over it, and a long windlass handle; and see a chain, and-" |