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and, as the children say, "such cunning little curly feet." Would you not like to find out how it was made?     There is one just being begun; we will stand here, and see it through. The man we are watching first thrusts his rod, which, by the way, is hollow, into the mouth of a crucible, turns it about for a moment or two, and then withdraws it, loaded at the end with a ball of metal, as the liquid glass is called. A Crucible. Blowing the Bulb.     Every trace of sand, lead, and all other ingredients has disappeared, being completely dissolved by the great heat, and pure, clear glass has taken their place. This ball, red-hot, and about as thick as treacle, is rolled for a short time upon a steel plate; then the man blows into it, down the long tube, and we see it swell. He rolls again, and blows again, the globe expanding still more, and now the shaping begins.     This is done with a wooden instrument-- from