Her mother gave her a drink from a large leaf, for there were no cups then.

After they drank the cool water the mother and child went away, but the little foot mark was still in the clay.

Other people went to the spring and saw the foot print.

They dug up the clay with the foot print and said, "See, we can use this better than a leaf."

After that they made dishes of clay. One old dish was thrown into the fire by mistake. Did the heat hurt the dish?

Why are bricks and dishes baked?

Expression. Mold dishes from clay.

Over the prairie green and fair,

I play with a skip and a bound,
As free am I as air,

No happier child to be found.
Where'er I go no bounds arise,
Except the blue and cloudless skies.
My home is the prairie fair.

Expression at desk. Copy stanza.

DRAWING.

pic tûres

learn ing

hěm í sphere

cone

Do you like to make pictures?

There! I see that you all like that.

Before you came to school at all, you liked to make pictures.

And your baby sister or baby brother, like nothing better than to get your slate and mark on it. But But you have learned how to make real pictures. And you have learned, that every time you draw a leaf, an apple, or any thing else well, you can draw the same better the next time you try.

Do you know that learning to draw helps you learn to write?

Here are some pictures for you to draw. How many other things can you make that look like the hemisphere or the cone?

"What do you say, boys and girls, to a picnic next Saturday? The days are warm yet and the nuts are all ready to gather.

"You have no school on that day, and we can take our dinner with us to the woods and have one more picnic before winter comes.

"These October days are too pleasant to spend in the house."

This is what Uncle John said one day to his dozen nieces and nephews.

Of course every boy and girl was willing to go to a picnic with Uncle John.

Every one was ready on Saturday. Harold had his dog Max with him and Rose brought her little playmate, Edna.

Mary's big brother Rob went along to help Uncle John.

Such fun as it was to stow away in the big wagon!

The baskets filled with lunch and the bags to fill with nuts were not forgotten. When all was ready, the horses started.

Down the street and out past the mill they went, the children shouting and Max barking. It was indeed a gay party.

When they came to the woods, all hurried out of the wagon so fast as to nearly tumble · over each other. Uncle John had taken a good day to go to the woods.

Jack Frost had touched the trees and the ground was covered with nuts.

A squirrel sat upon a log near by watching the children.

Do not fear that the children will get all your nuts, Mr. Squirrel.

They will leave you a good share.
The bags were soon filled.

Some of the boys have stained their hands with the walnuts.

You had better wait until the nuts are dry, boys, before you crack them. Take them home and spread them out to dry. Then you can eat them.

Will you hull the walnuts and butter nuts before they are dry?

What are made of nuts in Germany?

Mary has found some hazel-nuts. What pretty burrs they have. Do you not think so?

Expression at desk. Copy all questions, and change them into statements.

A pretty squirrel had a nest in an old oak

tree.