_ Why, mother, is heat kept in cages, like birds or mice?
_Mother._ No, my dear, not exactly in cages, like birds or mice; but a
great deal closer, in a different kind of cage.
_Daughter_ Why, mother, what sort of a cage can heat be kept in?
_Mother._ I must answer your question, Caroline, by asking you another.
When Alice makes her fire in the kitchen, how does she make it?
_Daughter._ She takes some wood, or some coal, and puts under it some
pine wood, which she calls kindling, and some shavings, and then takes a
match and sets the shavings on fire, and very soon the fire is made.
_Mother._ But does she not first do something to the match?
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_Daughter._ O, yes; I forgot to say that she lights the match first, and
then sets fire to the shavings with the lighted match.
_Mother._ But how does she light the match, my dear?
_Daughter._ Why, mother, have you never seen her? She rubs one end of
the match on the box, where there is a little piece of sand-paper, and
that sets the match on fire.
_Mother._ Is there any fire in the sand-paper, Caroline?
_Daughter.
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