Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . oods. The moreyou see of Madam Hows masonry and carpentry, theclumsier mans work will look to you. But now wemust get ready to give up our tickets, and go ashore,and settle ourselves in the train; and then we shallhave plenty to see as we run home; more curious, tomy mind, than any suspension bridge. And you promised to show me all the different rocksand soils as we went home, because it was so darkwhen we came from Reading. • Very good. Now we are settled in the train. And what do youwant to know first? More about the new
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Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . oods. The moreyou see of Madam Hows masonry and carpentry, theclumsier mans work will look to you. But now wemust get ready to give up our tickets, and go ashore, and settle ourselves in the train; and then we shallhave plenty to see as we run home; more curious, tomy mind, than any suspension bridge. And you promised to show me all the different rocksand soils as we went home, because it was so darkwhen we came from Reading. • Very good. Now we are settled in the train. And what do youwant to know first? More about the new rocks being lower than the oldones, though they lie on the top of them. WeU, look here, at this sketch; A boy pUing up slates ? What has that to do withit? I saw you in Ireland piling slates against a rock 250 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY just in this way. And I thought to myself— That issomething like Madam Hows work. How? Why, see. The old rock stands for the mountainsof the Old World, like the Welsh mountains, or theMendip Hills. The slates stand for the new rocks, . which have been piled up against these, one over theother. But, you see, each slate is lower than the onebefore it, and slopes more; till the last slate whichyou are putting on is the lowest of all, though it over-lies all. I see now. I see now. Then look at the sketch of the rocks between thisand home. It is only a rough sketch, of course : but HOMEWARD BOUND 251 it will make you understand some-thing more about the matter. Now.You see the lump marked A, withtwisted lines in it. That standsfor the Mendip Hills to the west, which are made of old red sandstone, very much the same rock (to speakroughly) as the Kerry mountains. And why are the lines in ittwisted ? To show that the strata, thelayers in it, are twisted, and setup at quite different angles fromthe limestone. But how was that done ? By old earthquakes and changeswhich happened in old worlds, ageson ages since. Then the edges ofthe old red sandstone were eat