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d we've all got to do a little work to-night by moonlight. Fortunately t

ck, "we've got to have some dry broom straw for our beds, and

e grass kind, which grows thickly in every open space. In

siasm instantly outvoted their weariness, for their proceedings

drew to an end, "I for one am not half as

not," said

om. "I don't see how I h

ee an engine that worked badly for want of steam? Did

the boiler. But what has that to do with getting tire

its work. Now an engine gets its energy from the coal or wood burned under its boiler. This human machine derives its energy solely from food put into the stomach.

"how about those people that are always tired-'born tired'

ne to shovel coal into its furnace if the coal doesn't burn. In the same way

y assimilated your food and your ideas,"

to the hut and bestowed it in one corner, ready for use. As they carried on the work

her prophet, and this time it's lucky for us that you are. Otherwise we should have had w

ll divide this platform into compartments, each to serve as a bed. We'll lay clapboards on the poles to make a smooth surfac

ep under the Doctor's muslin window?" asked H

. "The windows will keep out the cold q

uslin keep cold out or heat in, which I believe

wo pieces of muslin. There is hardly anywhere a worse conductor of heat than confined air. That is why in building fire proof structures in the great cities they use hollow bricks for partition walls. No amount of heat on one side can pass through the confined air in the bricks and set fire

greased muslin windows, Doctor?" ask

too great. And then later, when glass became cheaper, a stupid government put a tax on windows, and so men went on using greased clot

government to raise revenue by so simple a m

em. But governments in the old days assumed not that the government existed for the good of the people, but that the people existed for the good of the government. Never until our American Republic was established was that notion driven out of the minds of Kings, Princes and gr

rge III a pointed and not very polite reminder that the King was after all only a chosen chief magistrate of the people, appointed b

taxation of Great Britain. But the beauty of the whole thing lies in the fact that these great truths, asserted by the Americans in justification of their rebellion, have been fastened upon the minds of men everywhere, and all civilized governments have been compelled to accept and submit to them. There are kings and emperors still, but they