FIGURE 42

 You now see the water of the jet scattering in all directions, and you hear it making a pattering sound on the paper on which it falls.  I take out of my pocket a stick of sealing wax and instantly all is changed, even though I am some way off and can touch nothing. 

  The water ceases to scatter ;  it travels in one continuous line and falls upon the paper making a loud noise which must remind you of the rain of a thunderstorm.

C.V. Boys, “Liquid Cylinders and Jets” from Soap Bubbles, Their Colours and The Forces Which Mould Them, London, 1896.

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AT SEA

"They went to sea in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they went to sea:

In spite of all their friends could say,

On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,

In a sieve they went to sea.

      *      *      *      *      *

"They sailed away in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they sailed so fast,

With only a beautiful pea-green veil,

Tied with a riband by way of a sail,

To a small tobacco-pipe mast;" 

 

And so on. You see that it is quite possible to go to sea in a sieve—that is, if the sieve is large enough and the water is not too rough—and that the above lines are now realized in every particular.

  -- C.V. Boys – Soap-Bubbles and Forces Which Mould Them (1896).