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nd the juice is pressed out. Then it is oiled, to make sugar and molasses.

4. Sugar is sometimes made from the ap, that runs out of maple trees. It can e made of the juice of beets, carrots, corntalks, pumpkins, and many other things. 5. Oranges, Lemons, and Figs, grow ike apples, on small trees. They will not grow where the weather is cold. The eaves of some fig-trees are larger than an apron. Two of them would be large enough, to make a gown for a great girl.

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1. What we eat is called food or vict Now read about different kinds of

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2. Bread is made of corn and rye, or of wheat. Corn, and rye, and wheat in the fields, and are called grain.

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3. Sometimes we eat rice. Rice grows on wet land. Here is a picture of a deer and the rice plant.

4. We sometimes eat meat. One kind of meat is called beef, and that is the flesh of an ox or a cow, that has been killed.

5. Another kind of meat is called veal,

nd that is the flesh of a calf. The flesh f sheep is called mutton; and the flesh of pgs, is pork.

6. When a deer is killed, its meat is enison. When hens, chickens, ducks, eese, and turkeys are killed, and their athers are picked off, they are called oultry.

7. We have many kinds of fish; such s, cod, haddock, halibut, salmon, shad, erch, pickerel, and trout.

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SCHOOL MISTRESS AND SCHOLARS.

1. Hear this School Mistress ask ques tions, and her Scholars answer them.

2. How many days are there in a year? 3. Three hundred and sixty-five. Once in four years, there are three hundred and sixty-six. Then it is called Leap-year.

4. What else do you know of time?

5. Sixty seconds make a minute; sixty minutes make an hour; twenty-four hours make a day; seven days make a week; fifty-two weeks make a year; one hundred years make a century.

6. Very well. Now tell the days of the week.

7. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wedesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Sunday is the Sabbath or Lord's-day, and s called holy time.

8. How must you spend the Lord's-day? 9. In reading the Bible, and other good books, attending church, and the sabbathschool, and in works of charity to others." 10. How do you know the time of day? 11. I ask my mother, and she looks at he clock, and tells me.

12. You must learn to tell for yourself, and not ask others to do any thing for you, which you can easily do. How many Months are there in a year?

13. Twelve. They are January, Febuary, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

14. How many Seasons are there? 15. Four. They are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Autumn is someimes called Fall, because the leaves then all from the trees.

16. Tell the months of each season.

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