Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump by Ingersoll Lockwood

Author:Ingersoll Lockwood [Lockwood, Ingersoll]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4057664560650
Publisher: Musaicum Books
Published: 2019-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

THE LITTLE BARON READING BY THE LIGHT OF THE GIGANTIC FIRE-FLIES.

I caused a huge lamp of exquisite oriental pattern to be constructed, and having placed the light-bearers beneath its dome of polished glass, passed several nights in the most perfect happiness, seated in its soft, white light, poring over musty volumes of travel, written in tongues long-forgotten, save by a few of the most learned scholars. But, my delight was short-lived. The gigantic fire-flies absolutely refused to eat anything, although I tempted them with a hundred different kinds of food. Little by little, their mysterious flame lost its bright effulgence—burning lower and lower until it went out in death.

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