seem busy all of the time. The dirt which they take from the underground passage ways is piled neatly around the door.

You will find the hermit crab among the rocks

at low tide. He carries his home on his back. The home is not his own, but one he has stolen. When he is in need of a new house he finds an empty turban shell or a periwinkle and crawls into it. If it fits, he stays there. How funny he looks as he runs around with the clumsy shell upon his back.

Each kind of bird makes a different nest. The eagle's nest is a rude, coarse home for the little ones, but the humming bird's is of softest down.

When the little birds grow up they build nests just like those they were hatched in. The mother birds teach them in some way so that they never forget.

What is the use of a home?

Mention some animals that do not have homes.

Of what does the mouse build its nest?

Mention some animals that make their homes fn the ground. Mention some that make their homes under stones and logs. What is the home of a bear called? What does the bear do in the winter?

Where do birds go in the winter? Are there any that stay with us through the winter?

A long time ago people did not have beautiful homes. Then all the people on the earth were rude and savage. They wandered from place to place for food, and were like animals in many ways.

What sort of homes do you suppose these savage people had? They spent hardly as much time

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upon their shelters as the birds do upon their nests. Some of them lived in caves which they found in the rocks. Others built rude huts of bark or reeds to protect them from the cold and rain.

People chose places to live where they would

be safe from the wild animals. They had also to defend themselves in their fights with each other.

Then hunting and fishing was the chief occupation of the people, and they had to go where there was game to be found. When they discovered that they could raise grain and vegetables they did not