3:41a |
Strange! I thought, what must that be? I opened a vesicle and carefully lifted that little fleck with the knife into a watch glass filled with water, which I then brought under the microscope. As I took a look at it I jumped back as if struck by lightning, for I clearly saw a very small, precisely formed yellow yolk orb. I had to recover before I had the courage to look again, for I was worried that a phantom might have deceived me. It seems strange that the sight of something which one has expected and longed for can cause a fright when it is finally there. |