WEIGHING A SUNBEAM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 6

WEIGHING A SUNBEAM.

Two sages constructed a weighing machine, The airiest balance that' ever was seen; And why did they want.it?. . . You never would think! For weighing a sunbeam that fell through a chink— A sunbeam that came, in an eightminutes' run Some ninety-five millions of miles from the sun.

Itt slipped.through the chink in the flash of an eye; The grave old professors sat waiting close by; But vainly they waited, for nothing occurred— Those scales, that the wing of a fly would have stirred, They moved not.to feel this light visitor's fall; The poor little sunbeam weighed nothing at all!

A Sunbeam I keep; and I fancied, one ■ day, .. ' ■■' :.'■■■ 'Twere well to find out what my Sunbeam might weigh. . s There stands a machine by the stations, big gate— ! ■ My Sunbeam and I had a minute to wait; I lifted her up, all a-sparkle with fun (My bright little Sunbeam, ,sent straight from the sun]) And what" did she weigh? Will you venture to guess? Three stones and six pounds and nine ounces—no less!

—Australasian