NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES Stories From Physics: The Magnet 137 Moisture 140 The Different Connection of Particles 142 Crystals 143 Injurious Air 146 How Balloons Are Made 150 Galvanism 152 The Sun's Heat 156 Stories From Zoology: The Owl and the Hare 159 How the Wolves Teach Their Whelps 160 Hares and Wolves 161 The Scent 162 Touch and Sight 164 The Silkworm 165 Stories From Botany: The Apple-Tree 170 The Old Poplar 172 The Bird-Cherry 174 How Trees Walk 176 The Decembrists 181 On Popular Education 251 What Men Live By 327 The Three Hermits 363 Neglect the Fire 375 The Candle 395 The Two Old Men 409 Where Love Is, There God Is Also 445 TEXTS FOR CHAPBOOK ILLUSTRATIONS The Fiend Persists, but God Resists 463 Little Girls Wiser than Old People 466 The Two Brothers and the Gold 469 Ilyás 472 A Fairy-Tale about Iván the Fool 481 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "The clerk beat Sídor's face until the blood came" (_The Candle, see page 397_) _Frontispiece_ "'Whose knife is this?'" 73 "'God will forgive you'" 81 "They rode off to the mountains" 96 "'Whither are you bound?'" 332 "But the candle was still burning" 403 FABLES FOR CHILDREN 1869-1872 FABLES FOR CHILDREN I. ÆSOP'S FABLES THE ANT AND THE DOVE An Ant came down to the brook: he wanted to drink. A wave washed him down and almost drowned him. A Dove was carrying a branch; she saw the Ant was drowning, so she cast the branch down to him in the brook. The Ant got up on the branch and was saved. Then a hunter placed a snare for the Dove, and was on the point of drawing it in. The Ant crawled up to the hunter and bit him on the leg; the hunter groaned and dropped the snare. The Dove fluttered upwards and flew away. THE TURTLE AND THE EAGLE