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plan before luncheon, and in the afternoon he was able to draw it in more neatly. Towards tea-time Mr. Cooper joined him, and was much interested in his progress. “Now this———” said Mr. Cooper, laying his hand on the globe, and then drawing it away hastily. “Whew! Holds the heat, doesn’t it, to a surprising degree, Mr. Humphreys. I suppose this metal—copper, isn’t it?—would be an insulator or conductor, or whatever they call it.”

‘The sun has been pretty strong this after- noon,” said Humphreys, evading the scientific point, “but I didn’t notice the globe had got hot. No—it doesn’t seem very hot to me,” he added.

“Odd!” said Mr. Cooper. “Now I can’t hardly bear my hand on it. Something in the difference of temperament between us, I suppose. I daresay you’re a chilly subject, Mr. Humphreys: I'm not: and there’s where the distinction lies. All this summer I've slept, if you’lll believe me, practically in statu quo, and had my morning tub as cold as I could get it.