7. Father. The most common trees in the forests, are the oak, maple, beech, birch, walnut or hickory, ash, pine, spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, lime or bass, poplar, chestnut, and elm.

DAVID AND HIS FATHER.

1. David. Well, sir, I can spell the names of the trees, and now I want to ask about stones. Did they grow?

2. Father. I do not know that they grew; and I do not know how they were made. They have been here longer than any person knows.

3. David. I am sorry that you cannot tell more about the stones. Can you tell about the road? When I went for the cows last night, I wanted to know whether the path grew, for them and me to walk in.

4. Father. That is a strange question. Did you not see, that where the cows stepped on the ground, they made marks or tracks?

5. David. Yes, sir, bat a track is not a road.

6. Father. True; but where cattle walk along every day, and make tracks, they soon wear the grass away, and tread the ground hard, and that makes a path.

7. David. Now I know what makes a road. Cattle, and men, and carts, and wagons, and chaises, and many other things, go along, and wear the ground smooth.

8. Father. Yes, and sometimes the high places are ploughed or dug, and the dirt is thrown upon the low places, to make the road level.

1. This is a very pretty play for children; but they should be careful not to wet their clothes, nor swallow any of the soapsuds.

2. These three children were one day playing, as you see them in the picture. The sun shone bright on the bubbles, and made every bubble show all the colors of the rainbow.

3. James blew up a great one, which rose very high, and staid a long time in the air without breaking. "Look, look," said Fanny, "was ever anything so gay?"

4. "See the colors," said Joseph: "who ever saw a finer sight? I can see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This is one of the best plays, that we ever had.

5. James, and Joseph, and Fanny were so eager in playing, that they could think of nothing else. They quite forgot that they set a plate-full of cake under the pear tree, and meant to eat it, as soon as each of them had blown one bubble.

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