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ounted in the top-floor, the new apparatus, boxes, bottles, and jars were placed on tables and shelves in the middle floor, and the two great glass discs were carefully carried into the stone-floored basement, where a cask was stood up on end, a hole made in the head, and barrowful after barrowful of the fine silver sand plentiful in amongst the pine-trees was wheeled up and poured in, like so much water, with a big funnel, till the cask was full.
"What's that for?" said Uncle Richard, in response to an inquiry from his nephew. "That, Tom, is for a work-bench, meant to be so solid that it will not move. Try if you can stir it."
Tom gave it a thrust, and shook his head.
"I don't think three men could push it over, uncle," he said.
"Two couldn't, Tom. There, that will do. We mustn't have any accident with our speculum. Now then, to begin. Ready? Tuck up your sleeves."
Tom obeyed, and helped his uncle to lift one of the glass discs on to the top of the cask, where it was easily fixed by screwing three little brick-shaped pieces of wood on to the head close against the sides of the glass.
Uncle Richard paused after tightening the last screw, and stood looking at his nephew.
"What a queer boy you are, Tom," he said.
"Am I, uncle?" said the lad, colouring.
"To be sure you are. Most boys would be full of questions, and ask why that's done."
"Oh," cried Tom, who smiled as he felt relieved, "I'm just the same, uncle--as full of questions as any boy."
"But you don't speak."
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