Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for
    The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for
    The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for
    Ebook116 pages57 minutes

    The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for

    By Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for

    Read more from Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

    Related to The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Paul Heiney

      Aug 30, 2019

      Paul Heiney
      3 min read

    • Article

      READER Reviews

      Dec 3, 2020

      by Laura Dockrill and illustrated by Gwen Millward Piccadilly Press, £9.99 Review by Esmeralda, age eight This story is called Butterfly Brain. It is written in verse, and it is about a little boy called Asparagus – or Gus for short – who always

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books To Buoy Your Spirits

      May 14, 2020

      Mad about the boat Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex I’ve not been idle. I’ve just finished reading War and Peace, but to be honest the 864 pa

      3 min read

    • Article

      Penelope Lively Ponders Pompeii — And Other Stories — In 'The Purple Swamp Hen'

      May 6, 2017

      Award-winning novelist Penelope Lively hasn't written short stories in decades, but, she says, the form suddenly came back to her, for a collection that ranges from Pompeii to the modern day.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Setting The World Alight

      Jun 6, 2021

      Ireckon I’ve got a book in me. This is not because, while distracted, I have absent-mindedly swallowed a book. I have not. However, I am firmly of the view that I contain a book. I arrived at the notion aft er noticing, in my slow way, that others to

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Ageing Gun

      Sep 17, 2021

      The Ageing Gun
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Lydia Kiesling

      Dec 16, 2018

      I couldn’t help noting that this reading assignment was the corner office in the women’s work of thinking about men who are not thinking about you. The post A Year in Reading: Lydia Kiesling appeared first on The Millions.

      10 min read

    • Article

      Making A Case For Keeping Mum

      Aug 1, 2017

      There is a growing movement in New Zealand that seeks to encourage potters to speak out or write about their work, explain it in depth and so put it in context internally, in their own minds, and externally, for the viewer. It is also intended to rai

      12 min read

    • Article

      Spell Bound

      Oct 6, 2022

      Spell Bound
      7 min read

    • Article

      Just A Little Sheepish

      Mar 22, 2022

      Just A Little Sheepish
      3 min read

    • Article

      Seven Books I’ll Never Read

      Aug 7, 2018

      Seven Books I’ll Never Read
      6 min read

    • Article

      Service We’re Pleased To Be Of

      Sep 1, 2021

      Service We’re Pleased To Be Of
      6 min read

    • Article

      Thorn Vine on the Wall

      Oct 11, 2017

      Thorn Vine on the Wall
      3 min read

    • Article

      Three Impossible Tasks

      Feb 1, 2020

      Three Impossible Tasks
      7 min read

    • Article

      How To Get Your Boat Organised

      Sep 2, 2021

      How To Get Your Boat Organised
      5 min read

    • Article

      Paul Heiney

      Jun 24, 2022

      Paul Heiney
      3 min read

    • Article

      Paul Heiney

      Jun 24, 2022

      Paul Heiney
      3 min read

    • Article

      Stet: On Cutting—but Keeping—Everything

      Mar 2, 2023

      The first time I tell Rachelle that I love her, she answers “Five reasons.” “What?” “Five reasons. Give me five reasons why.” “Five?” I say. “Five.” I look to the ceiling, mouth open, still as a corpse, and remain this way for a minute, maybe more. A

      12 min read

    Reviews for The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for - Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Diving Bell, by Francis C. Woodworth

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Diving Bell

             Or, Pearls to be Sought for

      Author: Francis C. Woodworth

      Release Date: August 20, 2005 [EBook #16560]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DIVING BELL ***

      Produced by Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Produced from

      page scans provided by the Internet Archive and University

      of Florida.

      The Fox and the Crab.

      THE DIVING BELL;

      OR,

      PEARLS TO BE SOUGHT FOR.

      With Tinted Illustrations.

      BY UNCLE FRANK,

      AUTHOR OF A PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS,

      WILLOW LANE STORIES,

      THE DIVING BELL, ETC. ETC.

      BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO. PUBLISHERS.

      CONTENTS.

      I. THE NAME OF MY BOOK

      II. THINKING AND LAUGHING

      III. THE SCHEMING SPIDER

      IV. GENIUS IN THE BUD

      V. PUTTING ON AIRS

      VI. TRY THE OTHER END

      VII. THE FOX AND THE CRAB

      VIII. THE GREEDY FLY

      IX. CAROLINE AND HER KITTEN

      X. I DON'T KNOW

      XI. THE LEARNED GEESE

      XII. THE WRONG WAY

      XIII. THE RIGHT WAY

      XIV. THE OLD GOAT AND HIS PUPIL

      XV. ON BARKING DOGS

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      THE FOX AND THE CRAB (Frontispiece)

      THE SPIDER'S INVITATION

      THE SPIDER'S TRIUMPH

      KATE AND HER TUTOR

      MY PRETTY KITTEN

      THE LEARNED GEESE

      THE OLD GOAT AND HIS PUPIL

      I.

      THE NAME OF MY BOOK.

      The reader, perhaps, as he turns over the first pages of this volume, is puzzled, right at the outset, with the meaning of my title, The Diving Bell. It is plain enough to Uncle Frank, and possibly it is to you; but it may not be; so I will tell you what a diving bell is, and then, probably, you can guess the reason why I have given this name to the following pages.

      If you will take a common glass tumbler, and plunge it into water, with the mouth downwards, you will find that very little water will rise into the tumbler. You can satisfy yourself better about this matter, if, in the first place, you lay a cork upon the surface of the water, and then put the tumbler over it.

      Did you ever try the experiment? Try it now, if you never have done so, and if you have any doubt on the subject.

      You might suppose, that the cork would be carried down far below the surface of the water. But it is not so. The upper side of the cork, after you have pressed the tumbler down so low that the upper end of it is even below the surface of the water—the upper side of the cork is not wet at all.

      And what is the reason of this, Uncle Frank?

      I will tell you. There is air in the tumbler, when you plunge it into the water. The air stays in the vessel, so that there is no room for the water.

      Oh, yes, sir; I see how that is. But I see that a little water finds its way into the tumbler, every time I try the experiment. How is that?

      You can press air, the same as you can press wood, or paper, or cloth, so that it will go into a smaller space than it occupied before yon pressed it. Did you ever make a pop-gun?

      Oh, yes, sir, a hundred times.

      Well, when you send the wad out of the pop-gun, you do it by pressing the air inside the tube. Now if your tumbler was a hundred or a thousand times as large, the air would prevent the water from coming in, just as it does in this instance. Suppose I had dropped a purse full of gold into a very deep river, and it had sunk to the bottom. Suppose I could not get it in any other way but by going down to the bottom after it. I could go down to that depth, and live there for some time, by means of a diving bell made large enough to hold me, precisely in the same way that a bird might go down to the bottom of a tub of water, in a tumbler, and stand there with the water hardly over his feet. There is a good deal of machinery about a diving bell, it is true. But I need not take up much time in describing it. It is necessary for the man to breathe, of course, while he is in the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1