Eye Spy - The Original Classic Edition

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Eye Spy. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by William Hamilton Gibson, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Eye Spy: AMONG my somewhat numerous correspondence from young people, I recall several wondering inquiries about a certain fat, floundering beetle, as blue as indigo; and when we consider how many other observing youngsters, including youngsters of larger growth, have looked upon this uncouth shape in the path, lawn, or pasture, will speculate as to its life history, it is perhaps well to make this floundering blue beetle better acquainted with his unappreciative neighbors....The outer surface of this particular piece had been covered with bark and not especially brilliant, but the cavity of yielding moist fibre thus exposed, as well as the inner surface of the dislodged piece, poured forth a perfect flood of greenish light, indicating that the damp uncanny fire extended to the very core of the post, which was saturated with the phosphorescent essence. ...It fairly glowed into a halo up from the wooden curb which surmounted the well, where it was viewed at a safe distance with bated breath by a curious crowd of villagers, not one of whom would have dared to steal up and surprise the innocent spook in its haunt-doubtless a mass of fox-fire which had found its brief, congenial home in the decaying boards within the tottering well-curb. ...Taking hold of the loose bark, a vigorous pull dislodged a great piece some three feet long, at the same time liberating a glare of greenish light from the exposed surface of the log, which was responded to in sympathy by the inner surface of the slab of bark in my hands, in all representing about six square feet of brilliant phosphorescence....The well-known commercial article called luminous paint is an apt example, which, while containing no trace of phosphorus, glows like fox-fire at night, especially after having been exposed to the suns rays during the day, giving forth in the dark hours the light which it has thus absorbed, and being thus of utility in its application to clock faces and match-boxes.