dorehndmadea voyagtof 000 there I hours.?" " In what
»«■ in half a day. "Thai is climate?" said thesailor, much sur-
irapoasibif," s;l i t i thesailorj "no prised, and beginning to perceive
air-balloon has ever yel been able the truth of his reply. 'Mu-
se such a apace in so short a aiel mentioned the frigid eone.
time." '• I do nol say,*' returned " In that ion< I bit master,
the spaniel, bythe help of his in- "the days indeed are ofdiffe
(erpreter, " that an air-balloon was lengths, from 24 hoursfo 6 months.
cd for that purpose: [speak ffCaptain Cook," added he,"when
°' ■ j by sea." The sailor he sailed beyond the polar circle,
then said, " That by sea it was still had followed a parallel where the
more impossible; because, as the day was only a month long, he
I st sailing vessel went ; < f tw
af uo more than about five
tea an hour, it could never
make a voyage of 600 leagues in
half a day-"
might, in half a day consisting of
360 hours, have traversed the space
of GOO leaguei
The sailor being desirous to sur-
prise the spaniel and Iris master in
The annual persisted In main- his turn, asked them if they knew
laininghis assertion, and the sail- a place where the sun and moon
or was going to lav a considerable might rise at the same hour, and
bet, when Uw spaniel and Ids mas- even at the same instant, when tl
<< r added, that they had performed two luminaries are in opposition,
igcia a country where thej that is to say, at full moon? The
nulled fire with ice. " If you arc animal and Ids master replied, that
it was the pole ; adding, that in the
, same place the sun was always in
the meridian, because every point.
1 of the horizon was south to the in-
habitants, if any at the pql( .
A lawyer, who was present, dis-
puted a long time against the spa-
niel, because the latter pretended
that a man w ho died at noon, might
rous of shewing your erudi
tion," replied the baUor, " do not,
I beg of you, utter so many absur-
dities."
The master of the spaniel then ad-
ring the animal, said, " Tell us.
my friend, is it nol true that a tire
be kindled with a piece of ice,
II it be cut into the form of a lens.
- to 'collect the sun's rays into II sometimes be the heir of another
U focus, and to project them on H , who died the same day at half an
smallheap of gunpowder." The
animal, which was blind-folded,
nodded with his h.m], to saj
hour after twelve. Though vari-
ous laws were quoted from the Di-
rest and the Justinian Code, which
' ,s *f- hi : d fully comprehended declare 1 that the heir must survive
proposed to him.
The dog on this point is right,
( the testator ; _ et the spaniel proved,
that the assertion was perfectly
..'or; kl but it does not agreeable to these laws, because the
r ' journeyof 600 leagues person who died at half after twelve
can I- | d in half a day." died before 'he other : this wouh
not, replied the dog, by the case if the first died at London,
in of hism;:ster, " if it be and the other at Vienna,
in a count,!,)- wherein half a c^> ; A third person proposed the fbl-
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A LEARNED SPANIEL.