OR, THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED: CONSISTING OF A VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS PIECES FOR THE Instruction and Amusement of YOUNG PERSONS. BY DR. AIKIN AND MRS. BARBAULD. THIRTEENTH EDITION. Carefully revised and corrected throughout by And with some additional Pieces, by the Authors. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; R. TWENTY-FIRST EVENING. ON EARTHS AND STONES. Tutor-George-Harry. Harry. I WONDER what all this heap of stones is for. George. I can tell you-it is for the lime-kiln; don't you see it just by? H. O yes, I do. But what is to be done to them there? G. Why they are to be burned into lime; don't you know that? H. But what is lime, and what are its uses? G. I can tell you one; they lay it on the fields for manure. Don't you remember we saw a number of little heaps of it, that we took for sheep at a distance, and wondered they did not However, I believe we had move? |