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Läsebok. N:o 76 — 77.
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And when at last provoked to lise,
As if to have a game,
Shrewd Khalbi sunk into her place,
(Now was it not a shame?)
Her place so warm and cosy too,
Which they might well have shared!
He’d curl his little body round,
Nor care how pussy fared.
At other times, less selfish, he
Would only come and lay
His waggish head upon her side,
To pass the time away.
At meals, if once the master called,
Quick ran both he and she,
To catch some dainty little scrap,
Which made them dance with glee.
But sadly changed and altered now
These times of long ago;
For pussy only walks the earth,
Poor Khalbi lies below.
And now a little fluffy pup
Appears in Khalbi’s room;
Long may he live, and pussy too,
Within their cheerful home.
49. Edmund Stone.
Edmund Stone affords us an instance of a self-educated
mathematician. Neither the place nor the time of his birth
is exactly known; but he was probably a native of
Argyle-shire, and born a few years before the close of the
seventeenth century. He is spoken of as having reached an
advanced age in 1760, and he died in 1768.
His father was gardener to the duke of Argyle, who,
walking one day in his garden, observed a Latin copy of
Newton’s »Principia» lying on the grass, and thinking it had
been brought from his own library, called some one to carry
it back to its place.
LTpon this, Stone, who was then in his eighteenth year,
claimed the book as his own. »Yours», replied the duke,
»do you understand geometry, Latin and Newton?» »I know
a little of them», replied the young man. The duke was
surprised; and, having a taste for the sciences, he entered
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