not make a noise in the house. He must keep sharp watch, or the dog-catchers will get him.

Harold loves Max dearly, and is usually a pretty good little boy, but he has one fault. He is careless and he forgets so much. Sometimes he forgets to speak kindly.

This morning he received a pretty new bicycle for a birthday present, and he went off for a spin before breakfast. When he came back he ran into the house, saying: "Mother, give me my chain, to chain my bicycle."

At breakfast he finds a neat little case by his plate. The case is small enough to go into his pocket, and large enough to hold his chain and key.

In the case is a little note which reads:

Hearts, like doors, will open with ease

To very, very little keys.

Do not forget that two are these:

"I thank you, sir,” and “If

you please."

Expression at desks. Answer these questions in writing:
Why did Harold's mother put that note in his case?
What did Harold say to his mother when he read the note?

It was long ago that a child

lived in far away Italy, whose name was Christopher Columbus.

Who can tell why we care to hear about this little boy?

Christopher Columbus had three brothers and three sisters.

How many more boys than girls were in that family?

At that time there were not many books to read.

Christopher and his brothers would listen to the stories the men told, and Christopher would repeat these stories to his sisters.

They were all about the places where the men had been, and the strange things they had seen, for these men were sailors.

Every day Christopher would think, “When I am a man I shall be a sailor."

He learned all that he could about a ship and how to sail it, so that he could become a good sailor.

At that time nearly every one thought the earth was flat.

But when Christopher Columbus was a man he thought that it was round. Was he right? Why did he think that the earth was round like a ball?

He crossed the sea in strange boats. There were no great steamboats then.

When Columbus found new land he was glad.

The land he found was America. But the country was not named America until after that time.

Only Indians lived in America then. What did the Indians eat?

Expression at desk. Write list of food the American Indians used.

You all like the cool moist clay to mold into spheres, cubes, cups and other things.

Do you ever think that were it not for clay we would not have the bricks to build our houses? And we could not have the plates and cups and other dishes we use, either.

There is a story about how clay came to be used, that runs something like this:

A little old woman went to sleep deep down in the earth.

There she waited and slept for many years.

At last her bed was thrown up through the earth into the air, and she saw the light again.

Then she waited many years more near the place, where there was a cool, pleasant spring. One day a child came to the spring with her mother.

Her little bare feet rested on the clay and pressed down the shape of a little foot into the soft bed.