From: Lister <dur...@wi...> - 2009-08-20 18:21:34
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Basket being only about as big round as your head, but six feet high, that would make quite a load, wouldn't it?" "I don't believe I could carry it," was the answer. "And if the basket were sixty feet high, as high as a barn?" "I'd be squashed under it." "And if it were six miles high!" "Why," answered Anton, "a basket six miles high, even if you filled it up with cotton fluff, would weigh tons and tons!" "Well, my boy," said the Weather Forecaster, "you're carrying on the top of your head a column of air, not only six, but sixty miles high, yes, and more than that! You don't notice it, of course, because you're used to it, and your body is ma |