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Page 51 - Benjamin Franklin tells us, in one of his letters, that when he was a boy a little book fell into his hands, entitled " Essays to do Good, by Cotton Mather." It was tattered and torn, and several leaves were missing.
Page 115 - The United States was the first country in the history of the world to offer freedom to all.
Page 48 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 88 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 73 - ... the right hand toward the east, and the left hand toward the west. The Making and Reading of Maps.
Page 88 - That part of the earth's surface which is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is called the Torrid, or Hot Zone. We sometimes call it also the "Tropical Belt," or simply the "Tropics," because it is bounded by the two Tropic Circles.
Page 77 - ... the crescent grows wider and wider. At the end of a week the moon will be half-way across the sky, and half of the side turned toward us will be lighted up. In this form it is called the first quarter, or half-moon. At the end of two weeks the moon has passed all the way across the sky and thereafter rises in the east just as the sun sets in the west, so that we are between the moon and the sun. We now see it with all its face lighted up and we call it the full moon. The Moon's Journey Lasts...
Page 88 - Equator the wet season lasts from October to April, and the dry season from April to October.
Page 105 - ... nations. (8) Name some other members of the yellow race. (9) Where do the Malays live? (10) How do the Indians now live? (11) Describe the manner of life of the Negro in his native land. (12) What is being done to improve his condition? SUPPLEMENTARY READING. Starr: Strange Peoples; American Indians. Schwartz: Five Little Strangers. Shaw: Big People and Little People of Other Lands. Andrews: Seven Little Sisters. Herbertson: Man and His Work, Chapter XIV. CONTINENTS AND COUNTRIES PART III.